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 Dick Moorefield (ASN: 1099648), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 55th Infantry Regiment, 7th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Jaulny, France, 4 November 1918. While leading a patrol in front of our lines, Sergeant Moorefield and his patrol came under machine-gun and rifle fire, and one of his men was severely wounded. He crawled forward with his patrol until within 20 paces of an enemy gun, when, upon raising his head slightly, he saw the German who was feeding the ammunition to the gun. He shot the man through the head with his rifle and wounded another. When the German gun nearest him jammed he captured it, and another one nearby, together with three prisoners. Sergeant Moorefield jumped into the emplacement, cleared the jam in the gun, and turned it on the enemy guns on the right, silencing them. He then sent his patrol and the prisoners back into our lines, covering their retreat with one of the captured guns.