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 Bugler Richard Asa Marcella (ASN: 558037), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Machine-Gun Company, 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bazoches, France, 9 August 1918. Responding to a call for volunteers to destroy a hostile machine gun, Bugler Marcella, with two other soldiers, boldly went forward through machine-gun fire and accomplished this mission.