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 Arthur I. Clark (ASN: 2258790), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 39th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Esnes, France, 26 September 1918. Sergeant Clark was in command of one platoon of his company, which was held up by intense enemy machine-gun fire. Accompanied by two other soldiers, he voluntarily made an attack on one of the nests under heavy fire, firing a rifle grenade into it and forcing its surrender. He then advanced on another machine-gun nest and captured it, taking seven prisoners from both nests. His platoon having been forced to fall back by machine-gun fire from the rear, he reorganized it and led it in a successful attack on 75 of the enemy whom he discovered near by.