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 Lane Earl Stansberry (ASN: 102468), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company M, 168th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Flirey, France, 12 September 1918. Sergeant Stansberry, single-handed, captured a machine-gun post with 20 prisoners. In the face of heavy machine-gun fire he later took a pair of pliers from a wire cutter who had been killed, cut a path through the wire, and led his platoon forward in the attack. The extraordinary heroism displayed by Sergeant Stansberry was a great inspiration to the members of his organization.