The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Lance Corporal Edward Allen Buchholz (MCSN: 2088095), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a Gunner in an Antitank Assault Squad with Company H, Second Battalion, Fourth Marines, in connection with operations against North Vietnamese forces in the Republic of Vietnam. On 23 July 1966, during Operation HASTINGS, Lance Corporal Buchholz was participating in a reconnaissance patrol to scout a vital hill position and establish an outpost when vicious automatic weapons and machine gun fire was received from North Vietnamese concealed in the dense foliage. When one of his squad members was wounded while checking a trail, Lance Corporal Buchholz unhesitatingly ran to aid him and had moved forty meters up the hill when another enemy machine gun opened fire and hit him four times. Without regard for his intense suffering, he boldly continued toward his wounded comrade and while en route was hit twice more in the face. Displaying unselfish concern for others, he tried to calm the wounded man and insisted on helping to carry him to a protected position. He staunchly refused medical treatment for himself until he was assured that the other man had been evacuated, and was walking toward the medical evacuation site under his own power when he collapsed. By his extraordinary courage in the face of intense suffering, daring initiative and unfaltering dedication to duty throughout, Lance Corporal Buchholz upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service.