The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Corporal Henry K. Togami (ASN: 38352027), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Battery B, 522d Field Artillery Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, in action against the enemy on 18 October 1944. Corporal Togami was a member of an artillery forward observer party supporting the attack of an infantry company whose mission was to capture the town of Bruyeres, France, and also a commanding hill to the north of that town. When the attack of the company began, the enemy immediately placed machine gun, mortar and artillery fire on the hill where observation was being established, and in the vicinity of the attacking troops. Under this heavy concentration of hostile fire, Corporal Togami coolly directed the establishment of communications and the organization of the OP. On numerous occasions during the next five hours he voluntarily left the comparative safety of his foxhole, and worked his way forward several hundred yards, without protection of the infantry, to seek positions for better observation. This enabled him to locate enemy targets, bring effective artillery fire to bear, and aided the company in taking its objectives. During one of these movements he received painful shrapnel wounds but he determinedly remained in his hazardous position until his mission was completed.