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 Corporal John Messina (ASN: 1909496), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 328th Infantry Regiment, 82d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the attack on Hill 223, Chatel-Chehery, Argonne Forest, France, 7 October 1918. Corporal Messina, under heavy shell and machine-gun fire at the risk of his life carried a wounded officer from a shell hole to the regimental first-aid station.