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 Thomas Daniel Saunders (ASN: 156126), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 2d Engineers, 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Jaulny, France, 12 September 1918. Corporal Saunders and another soldier, who were acting as wire cutters with the first line of infantry, fought their way forward in advance of their units and were the first to enter Jaulny while it was swept by machine-gun fire, infested with snipers, and still occupied by rear guard detachments of the enemy. After capturing eight Germans in a dugout they searched the caves in the town and took 55 additional prisoners.