PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ROBERT G. FULLER, United States Marine Corps. For extraordinary heroism while serving with the First Parachute Battalion, First Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces during the invasion of Gavutu, Solomon Islands, on August 7, 1942. When the progress of his unit was retarded by heavy opposition, Private First Class Fuller, with a comrade, displayed courageous disregard for his imminent danger by attacking a heavily fortified gun emplacement from which the deadly fire was emanating. Charging forward against the withering blasts of hostile weapons, he unhesitatingly engaged the enemy in perilous hand-to-hand combat and, with the other marine, killed all eight of the Japanese, thereby annihilating a strong and hazardous obstacle. His daring aggressiveness and valiant devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.

Mr. Fuller resided in Massachusetts.