The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Private First Class Herman E. Hutton (ASN: 33655925), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with the 35th Infantry Division, in action near ****, Germany, on 8 March 1945. When his platoon was pinned to the ground by enemy machine gun fire in pen terrain, and two of his comrades were wounded by mortar shells, Private Hutton immediately rushed to one of the wounded soldiers and carried him to the cover of a ditch seventy-five yards away, where he was given immediate treatment and evacuated. Private Hutton’s gallant loyalty to a comrade-in-arms saved the wounded man from further injury and is in accord with the military traditions of the United States..