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 Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Elmer Tiffany Doocy, United States Army, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 168th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Suippes, northeast of Chalons-sur-Marne, France, 14 July 1918, and near Sergy, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, on 28 and 30 – 31 July 1918. After being severely wounded, with utter disregard of his own safety and comfort, Second Lieutenant Doocy remained on duty with his platoon under heavy fire of gas and high-explosive shells. Again, on Hill 212, near Sergy, he led his platoon and that of another wounded officer forward into a machine-gun nest, under heavy fire, capturing four prisoners and two machine-guns, and two days later, at night, near Sergy, at great risk of his own life, he bravely went out in front of a German sniper and brought back into the line a wounded corporal of his platoon.