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 First Sergeant Fred J. Harder (ASN: 2267547), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company K, 364th Infantry Regiment, 91st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Eclisfontaine, France, 29 September 1918. Responding to a call for volunteers, Sergeant Harder crossed an open space, a distance of about 300 yards, under terrific hostile fire of machine guns and artillery, to the position held by his machine-gun company, to inform them of the location of enemy machine-gun nests and snipers, who had escaped detection. The enfilading fire of the enemy threatened to wipe out his company, but the success of Sergeant Harder’s mission enabled our guns to silence the fire of the enemy.