The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Hospital Apprentice First Class Gus L. Taylor, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Corpsman attached to the Fifth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in action at the front in the battle of Bois de Belleau, France, 7 June 1918, in volunteering to go to the aid of two wounded men who were in front of our lines, and in bringing them to a place of safety, although himself wounded severely.