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 Frank M. Ford (ASN: 1554255), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company D, 166th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, 27 July 1918. After he and a comrade had located a hostile machine gun in a clump of trees 500 meters north of a chateau which their platoon was holding east of Fere-en-Tardenois, they secured permission of their platoon commander to attempt to force the enemy to abandon this position, and advanced over open ground and in the face of fire. With their rifles they drove the enemy from their gun, killing one and wounding another.