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) Albert H. Stout, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 132d Infantry Regiment, 33d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in Bois-de-Foret, France, 12 October 1918. After the battalion objective had been reached at the north edge of Bois-de-Foret, Lieutenant Stout’s platoon which was in the front wave, was attacked from the rear by the enemy, who had penetrated the line to the left. Lieutenant Stout quickly changed his position and led his men in a hand-to-hand fight. The hostile force, consisting of 40 men armed with six machine-guns, was killed or captured, Lieutenant Stout himself killing three Germans and capturing one machine-gun.