The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Sergeant Stanley G. Barron (MCSN: 332525), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving with Company I, Third Battalion, Eighth Marines, SECOND Marine Division, in action on Saipan, Mariana Islands, on 27 June 1944. When his squad was assigned the mission of advancing up a steep rocky cliff with the purpose of seizing the top of the ridge and contacting the unit on the right, Sergeant Barron led his squad up the cliff through intense and accurately observed mortar fire, and through the direct fire of an enemy artillery piece. With complete disregard for his own safety and showing the highest type of leadership under the most adverse conditions, Sergeant Barron kept his squad moving through the barrage until the top of the cliff was reached and the unit on the right contacted. His mission accomplished, he sent back to the open cliff, again subjecting himself to the enemy fire, and directed the evacuation of three wounded men. Later, on the same day, he crawled under intense machine gun fire through extremely dense bushes and coral boulders to aid a man who had been hit. Having crawled to within ten yards of the man and assured that he was dead, Sergeant Barron returned to his lines with information which enabled mortar fire to be directed on the enemy artillery piece which was firing into his lines. His courageous devotion to duty was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.