The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” to Corporal Frank E. Williams, United States Marine Corps, for heroic achievement while serving with the Machine Gun Platoon of Assault Rifle Company B, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, FIRST Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Peleliu, Palau Islands, on 16 September 1944. After leading his machine gun section over fourteen hundred yards of open airfield, Corporal Williams skillfully set up the weapons in thick brush on the northeastern edge of the airfield to provide protection for his riflemen and, noticing some of his personnel being harassed by Japanese sniper fire a few yards forward of this position, voluntarily worked his way ahead to kill three of the enemy with his sub-machine gun. His courage and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Naval Service. [Corporal Williams is authorized to wear the Combat “V”.]