Bucky Meyer - Silver Star Citation Guadalcanal, 6th Naval Construction Battalion
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands, October 3, 1942. While working on construction and maintenance of an airfield, Meyer manned a machine gun mounted in a pit where he had taken shelter during an air raid alarm. Acting unhesitatingly and beyond the call of regular duty, he fired on enemy Zeroes during the Japanese strafing attack which followed, and it was observed that tracer bullets from his gun repeatedly struck an enemy plane which was shot down. On October 16, 1942, he was killed in action while working on a pontoon barge loaded with gasoline which was struck by an enemy bomb. He gallantly gave up his life in the service of his country