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 Sergeant Jack Bennett (ASN: 736647), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company K, 11th Infantry Regiment, 5th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Louppy, France, 10 November 1918. Sergeant Bennett led a patrol in a flank attack on a machine-gun nest which was holding up the advance, and though half of his party was killed or wounded, he succeeded in putting the gun out of action. Coming under the fire of another machine gun, he was forced to take cover till after dark when he returned to our lines, bringing with him the wounded men.