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 Robert L. Crandall (ASN: 3127323), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Carrefour-de-Merrissons, France, 27 September 1918. After his company had taken shelter from the enfilading machine-gun and trench-mortar fire of the enemy, Private Crandall, with two other soldiers, crawled to the aid of wounded comrades, thus saying the lives of at least two, while exposed to terrific fire of the enemy.