The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Second Lieutenant Samuel E. Shore (MCSN: 0-103795), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a Platoon Commander with Company B, First Battalion, Twenty-Seventh Marines, FIRST Marine Division (Rein.), FMF, in connection with combat operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. During the early morning hours of 15 June 1968, Second Lieutenant Shore’s platoon was occupying a night defensive position in Quang Nam Province when the Marines came under a heavy volume of automatic weapons fire supporting a ground assault by a large North Vietnamese Army force. Calmly waiting until the enemy soldiers entered his unit’s field of fire, Second Lieutenant Shore boldly exposed himself to the hostile force and commenced directing a heavy volume of fire against its leading attack elements. When he was wounded by fragments from an enemy hand grenade, he refused treatment for his painful injuries and began shouting words of encouragement to his men as he directed devastating fire which forced the hostile soldiers to retreat into dense jungle foliage. Skillfully deploying machine guns to secure his flank, Second Lieutenant Shore unhesitatingly led an aggressive counterattack upon the disorganized North Vietnamese Army force, driving it from the area. Upon returning to their perimeter, the Marines again came under intense hostile machine gun fire from another location. Still disregarding his painful wounds, Second Lieutenant Shore fearlessly led his men in a second determined counterattack which was successful in routing the remaining enemy force and eliminating hostile action against his unit. His heroic actions and superb knowledge of tactics were instrumental in his unit accounting for twenty-four North Vietnamese Army soldiers confirmed killed and the capture of an enemy officer. By his courage, aggressive leadership and unfaltering devotion to duty at great personal risk, Second Lieutenant Shore inspired all who served with him and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service.