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 Harry Boretz (ASN: 1211226), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company H, 107th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Arbre Guernon, Belgium, 18 October 1918. Although severely wounded and ordered to dressing station, Corporal Boretz returned to the front lines, rejoined his company and voluntarily joined a patrol which attacked and routed enemy machine-gun crews. The officer in command of the patrol having been killed, corporal Boretz assumed command thereof and directed the capture of an enemy machine-gun crew of four men.