Edward A. DeVore, Jr., Specialist Four, United States Army, was born June 15, 1947, and died March 18, 1968. He received the Medal of Honor posthumously in the name of Congress for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. On the afternoon of March 17, 1968, while serving as a machine gunner with Company B on a reconnaissance-in-force mission about 5 kilometers south of Saigon, his platoon, the company’s lead element, came under intense fire from automatic weapons, Claymore mines, rockets, and grenades from well-concealed bunkers in a nipa palm swamp. One man was killed and three wounded about 20 meters from the bunker complex. DeVore ran through heavy fire to provide a base of fire with his machine gun, allowing the point element to move the wounded back to friendly lines. After artillery, gunships, and air strikes were used against the enemy positions, a squad sent forward to retrieve the fallen was pinned down in the kill zone by intense frontal and enfilading automatic weapons fire. With complete disregard for his personal safety, DeVore assaulted the enemy positions. Hit in the shoulder and knocked down about 35 meters short of his objective, he ignored his pain and the warnings of fellow soldiers, rose, and continued the assault under intense hostile fire. Although mortally wounded during this advance, he kept placing highly accurate suppressive fire on the entrenched insurgents. By drawing enemy fire onto himself, he enabled the trapped squad to rejoin the platoon safely. His extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty in close combat reflected great credit upon himself, the 39th Infantry, and the U.S. Army, and his memory also honors all who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their country.