FIRST LIEUTENANT LEMUEL GOODE, United States Army. For extraordinary heroism in action in the Southwest Pacific Area, on 30 November 1944. When sudden enemy fire from four machine guns and numerous riflemen killed the Commanding Officer and a Platoon Leader, wounded many others, and momentarily halted the assault of Company I, 306th Infantry regiment, against a well-organized hostile position near Buri, Leyte, Philippine Islands, Lieutenant Goode, Executive Officer, immediately raced forward to the head of the company. While enemy bullets swept the area, he recognized his men and exhorted them to greater effort, and then, with an automatic riflemen, led an attack on the nearest hostile machine gun position. With complete disregard for his own safety in the face of heavy enemy fire and exploding grenades, he destroyed the gun and its crew with accurately thrown grenades and then went to the aid of his wounded men as they lay exposed to the enemy. He was felled by a burst of machine gun fire which tore his shoulder to shreds, but as he lay in full view of the enemy, suffering excruciating pain, he shouted orders at his men who pressed forward, overran the enemy positions, and annihilated the foe. Through his aggressive, inspiring leadership and unremitting determination to destroy the enemy at all costs, Lieutenant Goode upheld the finest traditions of the military service.

NOTE: Nearly 49 years after First Lieutenant Goode faced the Japanese, he received his Distinguished Service Cross that was recommended so many years before.

Mr. Lemuel Goode resides in North Carolina.