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<p>HOSPITAL CORPSMAN AWARDED SILVER STAR<br>by Navy Journalist Third Class Alan J. Fishleder<br>Release Number 29-69<br>February 14, 1969<br><br>"You cannot imagine the yellow flames. The sky was filled with fragments," said Navy Hospital Corpsman Third Class Douglas L. Wean as he began to describe the events leading to his earning the Silver Star Medal, the nation's fourth highest heroism medal. Wean, the 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Wean Sr., 206 N. Wesley, Mount Morris, was awarded the Silver Star Medal in a ceremony February 14 at the Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill. Vice Admiral George M. Davis, Chief, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and Navy Surgeon General, made the presentation. Hospital Corpsman Wean received the medal for his heroism when he saved the lives of two Marines September 19, 1968, during a North Vietnamese artillery attack on a Marine position in Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam.
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<br>Subjects: Silver Star; Vietnam War; Hospital Corps; US Marine Corps;</div>
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U.S. Navy. Naval Hospital Great Lakes.</div>
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