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 Corporal Floyd E. Heath (ASN: 49901), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 23d Infantry Regiment, 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near St. Etienne-a-Arnes, France, 4 October 1918. Anticipating an enemy counter attack, Corporal Heath was ordered to take out a patrol of eight men to scour the woods to left of his position, drive out the snipers and establish liaison with the enemy on the left. Fearing that the size of the patrol would attract too much attention, he left the others in the trench, and going out, accomplished the mission alone, returning under heavy machine-gun fire.