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 Liberty Pease (ASN: 101022), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company E, 168th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Forest-de-Fere, near Nestles, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 26 to 2 August 1918. During the advance of his regiment in the Forest de Fere, Private Pease distinguished himself by his voluntary, authorized, and untiring efforts in carrying wounded, both by day and by night, under the most severe and dangerous circumstances, and especially when the town of Sergy was under bombardment, 31 July 1918.