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 James Joseph Snider (ASN: 1391401), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Machine-Gun Company, 132d Infantry Regiment, 33d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Bois-de-Foret, France, 10 October 1918. After six runners had been killed or wounded in attempts to get through heavy shellfire with an important message from the regimental commander of the 39th Infantry to the regimental commander of the 59th Infantry, Private Snider, with Private Sidney Holzman, responded to a call for volunteers and succeeded in delivering the message. While engaged on this mission Private Snider was badly gassed.