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 First Class Fred Charles Graveline (ASN: 20083), United States Army Air Service, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 27th Aero Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group, U.S. Army Air Service, A.E.F., near Villers-Devant-Dun, France, and Mouzon, France, September 29 to 5 November 1918. Volunteering to act as observer and aerial gunner because of the shortage of officer observers, Sergeant Graveline started on seventeen bombing missions, successfully reaching his objective on fourteen of these expeditions, shooting down two enemy aircraft. On two occasions, while flying in the rear of his formation, he drove off superior numbers of German machines.