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 Sergeant Stacy A. Lewis (ASN: 105252), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 2d Machine-Gun Battalion, 1st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Soissons, France, 22 July 1918. Sergeant Lewis voluntarily organized a machine-gun crew, moved forward in front of the infantry under heavy machine-gun and shell fire, killed an entire machine-gun crew and captured the gun.