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 Lieutenant (Field Artillery) Lynn Helm, Jr., United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 3d Battalion, 11th Field Artillery, 6th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Laneuville, France, 7 November 1918. Acting as battalion telephone officer, Lieutenant Helm repeatedly went out himself under heavy fire rather than assign such hazardous missions to members of his detail, personally directing the repair and maintenance of a line which was severed 15 times in two hours within a length of only one kilometer.