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 Sergeant Orrie Thompson (ASN: 279707), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the woods north of Cierges, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, on 1 August 1918. After his company had entered the woods north of Cierges, Sergeant Thompson and another soldier maneuvered around a machine-gun, which was causing many casualties in the company, and reached a shell hole after crossing an open space that was swept by hostile fire. From here they killed the crew of the machine-gun, captured the gun, and turned it on the enemy.