The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Private Onno Groenenboon (ASN: 44231), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company L, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Cantigny, France, 2 June 1918. Private Groenenboon went forward under intense machine-gun and artillery fire and assisted in the removal of a wounded soldier over a distance of one kilometer.