Staff Sergeant Harold F. Shaefer, 394th Infantry, United States Army. For extraordinary heroism in action against an enemy on 31 January 1945, in Belgium. When his company was pinned down by heavy machine gun fire from a hostile strongpoint, Staff Sergeant Schaefer led his platoon on a flanking movement through a heavily mined field, pointing out trip wires and anti-personnel mines to his comrades. Encountering a German soldier carrying a machine gun, he forced him at rifle point to drop his weapon and to call another hostile gun crew to surrender. When a second enemy weapon opened fire into the flank of his company, Staff Sergeant Schaefer crawled to within a few yards of the emplacement, hurled several grenades, and knocked the weapon out of action.

Mr. Schaefer is a life member and resides in Ohio.