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 Louis Scionti (ASN: 558045), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company F, 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bazoches, France, 9 August 1918. Responding to a call for volunteers to destroy a hostile machine-gun, Sergeant Scionti, with two other soldiers, boldly went forward through machine-gun fire and accomplished this mission.