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 Private Louis H. Harkenrider (ASN: 5554), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Ambulance Service, Fifth Regiment (Marines) (Attached), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the vicinity of Chateau-Thierry on 6 June 1918. With a corporal, Private Harkenrider went out into an open field under heavy shell and machine-gun fire and succeeded in bandaging and carrying back to our lines a wounded comrade.