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 First Class Jake Cecil Sartain (ASN: 2236537), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 315th Engineers, 90th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near St. Marie Farm, France, 18 September 1918. As Sergeant Sartain was successfully directing the erection of barbed wire entanglements under heavy shell fire, he heard cries for help from the direction of the enemy’s lines. He immediately went out to investigate, and, upon finding a soldier of another organization lying wounded, carried him to our lines, twice passing through enemy machine-gun fire in accomplishing this heroic act.