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 Private George Brenstuhl (ASN: 95139), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company L, 166th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near St. Georges, France, 15 October 1918. Seeing the only other company runner killed while delivering a message of vital importance, Private Brenstuhl crawled from shell hole to shell hole during a rain of machine-gun bullets, took the message from the dead man, and completed the mission.