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 Michael Cooney (ASN: 89552), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 165th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Villers-sur-Fere, Aisne, France, 1 August 1918. Corporal Cooney carried a wounded soldier 150 yards to safety through heavy machine-gun fire; then seeing his platoon about to advance, he returned under fire to the place where he had picked up the wounded man, secured his own rifle, and returned to join the advance.