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 John A. Hogan (ASN: 2219962), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bois-des-Rappes, France, October 28 – 30, 1918. While Sergeant of a liaison platoon, he volunteered to locate a machine-gun nest, and under heavy fire, went out alone and destroyed it. He volunteered to go out on a dangerous reconnaissance mission and returned with valuable information of the enemy, thus enabling a successful machine-gun barrage to be laid down on the hostile positions.