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 First Lieutenant (Infantry) Mowry E. Goetz, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 316th Infantry Regiment, 79th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Bois-de-Beuge, north of Montfaucon, France, 29 September 1918. Orders having been received at regimental headquarters to withdraw the troops to the Bois-de-Beuge, and a provisional battalion of the regiment occupying an advance position in which they were surrounded by enemy forces, the order for retirement of the battalion was not delivered to the battalion commander. Later in the afternoon it was learned that an American barrage would fall on the woods (Bois-de-Beuge) occupied by the battalion. Lieutenant Goetz volunteered to carry orders for the withdrawal of the battalion and, despite terrific enemy machine-gun and artillery fire, he made his way over rough and broken country, accompanied voluntarily by Private Roy B. Andes. They accomplished their mission, returning with the battalion to the new position as the American shells commenced to fall upon the Bois-de-Beuge.