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 Stephen Vaughn Shipman (ASN: 278336), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the woods north of Cierges, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, 1 August 1918. After his company had entered the woods north of Cierges Private Shipman and another soldier maneuvered around a machine-gun which was causing many casualties in the company and reached a shell hole, after crossing an open space that was swept by hostile fire. From here they killed the crew of the machine-gun, captured the gun, and turned it on the enemy.