The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Corporal Harold W. Roberts (ASN: 1013943), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 4 October 1918, while serving with Company A, 345th Battalion, 345th Battalion, Tank Corps, in action at Montrebeau Woods, France. Corporal Roberts, a tank driver, was moving his tank into a clump of bushes to afford protection to another tank which had become disabled. The tank slid into a shell hole, ten feet deep, filled with water, and was immediately submerged. Knowing that only one of the two men in the tank could escape, Corporal Roberts said to the gunner, “Well, only one of U.S. can get out, and out you go,” whereupon he pushed his companion through the back door of the tank and was himself drowned.