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 Floyd Hopping (ASN: 226561), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company L, 363d Infantry Regiment, 91st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Very, France, 29 September 1918. When his company was stopped by a wide belt of barbed wire Sergeant Hopping, then a mechanic, voluntarily went forward, under heavy machine-gun fire, and cut lanes through the wire in several places, thereby enabling his company to push through without casualties.