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 Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Harry B. Liggett, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 122d Machine-Gun Battalion, 33d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bois-de-Chaume, France, 10 October 1918. Leading his platoon under heavy shell and machine-gun fire, Lieutenant Liggett launched an attack on two enemy machine-gun nests. Accompanied by one soldier he silenced the fire from one nest with rifle fire, and directed the fire of his platoon so that the other nest was destroyed. He was severely wounded in this action.