PLATOON SERGEANT CHARLES EDWARD GREEN, for extraordinary heroism while serving with Company M, Third Battalion, Twenty-second Marines (Reinforced), Fifth Amphibious Corps, in action against enemy Japanese forces in the Marshall Islands, on 20 February 1944. When a counterattack by a strong force of the Japanese threatened the complete annihilation of the personnel of his Battalion Command Post, Platoon Sergeant Green quickly placed heavy fire from a Browning automatic rifle on the enemy and succeeded in halting the attack long enough to permit the hastly organization of a small force of Command Post personnel to strike the Japanese from the flank. Although wounded in this action, he continued to hold his post and delivered fire until the enemy was completely annihilated. By his forceful initiative and courage, he upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.

Mr. Green resided in Southern California.