The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Corporal Jens Leslie Stevenson (ASN: 1826693), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company F, 319th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Bois-des-Ogons, France, October 6. 1918. Corporal Stevenson voluntarily left shelter and crawled in the open under heavy machine-gun fire to the aid of a wounded soldier. While trying to dress the latter’s injuries, Corporal Stevenson was killed by a machine-gun bullet.