The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Sergeant [then Private First Class] Wallace H. Ogata (ASN: 30106009), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Company K, 3d Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, 92d Infantry Division, in actin against the enemy on 29 October 1944, in France. Although wounded in the head by sniper fire, Sergeant Ogata, a BAR man, refused to be evacuated because of his company’s depleted strength. Crawling one hundred and fifty yards to a slight elevation of his platoon’s exposed right flank, he kept constant vigil through artillery and small arms fire. When he was finally evacuated one-and-a-half hours later due to the loss of blood, he silenced an enemy machine gun and an automatic rifle. Sergeant Ogata’s courage and loyalty to his men are reflective on the highest ideal of the United States Army.