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 Herrick R. Goodwillie (ASN: 1386506), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 131st Infantry Regiment, 33d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bois-de-Chaume, France, 10 October 1918. When his company was enfiladed from the right by machine-guns and could neither advance nor withdraw, Sergeant Goodwillie volunteered to go for assistance, after several runners had been killed in similar attempts. Crawling back through heavy machine-gun fire, he reached the trench mortar battery, guided them forward, and himself operated one of the mortars which knocked out the enemy machine-gun nest, saving his company.