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 Louis T. Day (ASN: 69877), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Headquarters Company, 103d Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Apremont, France, 20 May 1918. Displaying remarkable coolness and courage, Sergeant Day volunteered and with one other man, at about midnight and under a heavy enemy artillery and machine-gun fire crawled through and over several wire entanglements to a point well within the hostile machine-gun outpost line, where they cut several meters from the armored cable which supplied electric current to the enemy’s wire entanglements which were an impediment and danger to our reconnoitering patrols.