The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Sergeant Harry E. Walters (MCSN: 452628), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as a Machine Gun Squad Leader of the Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, First Signal Battalion, FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced), in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 28 and 29 November 1950. Accompanying a reinforced provisional platoon of forty Marines in carrying out an assignment to prevent an enemy breakthrough of friendly lines, Sergeant Walters fearlessly proceeded through the friendly system of antipersonnel mines, trip flares and wire entanglements and advanced for a distance of approximately three hundred yards in front of friendly lines where, under enemy fire, he succeeded in locating and observing hostile positions. Returning to his own unit under intense small arms, machine gun and white phosphorous mortar fire, he quickly redeployed his squad and directed accurate and effective fire which destroyed the position and annihilated the surrounding enemy. By his daring initiative, bold and aggressive leadership and heroic actions at great personal risk, Sergeant Walters contributed materially to the successful repulse of the enemy penetration, thereby upholding the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.