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 Leon Alexander Dombrowski (ASN: 542186), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company H, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, north of Montfaucon, France, October 4 to 5, 1918. Corporal Dombrowski exposed himself to heavy machine-gun fire in order to crawl out in advance of our lines and drag a severely wounded noncommissioned officer to a near-by shell hole. Later under the cover of darkness he assisted this wounded noncommissioned officer to the first-aid station during an enemy bombardment.