The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Corporal Russel E. Hoyt (ASN: 72039), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company E, 104th Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Bois-Brule, France, 12 April 1918. Corporal Hoyt displayed courage and self-sacrificing devotion to duty in going to communication trench with one comrade and holding back advance of enemy through trench until killed at his post.