The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Private First Class Lee Edward Pearman, Jr. (ASN: 1247913), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company E, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, France, 30 September 1918. When the advance of the platoon was being held up by heavy enemy machine-gun fire, Private Pearman left his place of comparative safety and succeeded in getting close enough to the machine guns nest to use a hand grenade, which proved very successful, killing four and wounding one of the enemy, thereby breaking up the next completely and enabling the platoon to advance. In the performance of this act Private Pearman was killed instantly.