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 Wendell Wood Jacobs (ASN: 2185701), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 341st Machine-Gun Battalion, 89th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Bois-de-Bantheville, France, 30 October 1918. When six men of his section were wounded and his own hand was partly severed by a shell fragment, Private Jacobs had another soldier sever his hand with a pocket knife and then bandage it. While in this condition he assisted other wounded soldiers in every way possible before proceeding to the first-aid station, whence he was evacuated to the hospital.