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 [then Private First Class] Henry Gordon (ASN: 37161711), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Company D, 1st Battalion, 134th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, in action in the **** Sector near ****, Normandy, France, on 15 July 1944. Upon learning that an officer and a noncommissioned officer were lying wounded in an open field which was being subjected to heavy concentrations of enemy machine gun, mortar and artillery fire, Corporal Gordon, a messenger, voluntarily and alone, crawled to the wounded men and successfully evacuated first one and then the other. The courageous actions of Corporal Gordon, who placed the lives of two of his comrades in arms above that of his own, saved them from further injury and possible death, and reflects the highest credit upon his character as a soldier.