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 Lieutenant Eugene Etienne, Army of France, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 350th Tank Company, Tank Corps, near Gesnes, France, October 4 and 5, 1918. Lieutenant Etienne personally located a point at which the tanks could cross the stream and then remained at this point under the heavy enemy artillery and machine-gun fire until all the tanks had struggled across. He then led the section in the successful attack on the Bois-de-la-Morine, where the tanks destroyed the enemy machine-gun nests and allowed the American Infantry to reach the objective.