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 Arthur Levi Walters (ASN: 104377), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 2d Ammunition Train, 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Beaumont, France, 9 November 1918. Sergeant Walters was in charge of a convoy of ammunition trucks which was halted in the town. An enemy shell struck the train and set one of the trucks on fire. Although knocked down by the explosion, Sergeant Walters quickly recovered himself and moved his convoy to safety, after which he returned and, jumping to the wheel of the blazing truck, drove to a place where it no longer endangered the lives of others, and extinguished the fire, saving both trucks and ammunition.