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 Odilon Custeau (ASN: 67257), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 103d Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Belleau Wood, France, 20 July 1918. In the advance of the first wave, east from Belleau Wood, Corporal Custeau cleaned out, single-handed, a dugout of German machine-guns.