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 Berlin Wesley Brown (ASN: 1309673), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company M, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Busigny, France, 18 October 1918. When his platoon had been driven back by a concentrated machine-gun barrage and his platoon commander had been seriously wounded, and fallen on the field, Sergeant Brown and another soldier volunteered and brought the officer back to the line.