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 Lawrence T. McGee (ASN: 1257894), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 109th Machine-Gun Battalion, 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Fismes, France, 12 August 1918. Seeing a wounded soldier in an ambulance which had broken down while crossing a small bridge, in plain view of the enemy and under heavy artillery fire, Private McGee went to his rescue, and, assisted by another soldier, carried out the wounded man under intense shell fire one-and-one-half miles to a dressing station.