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 Guinet, French Air Service, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving as Observer, 208th Aero Squadron, French Air Service, 3d Army Corps, A.E.F. (Attached), near Nantillois, Meuse, 6 October 1918. Lieutenant Guinet displayed remarkable gallantry and devotion to duty when he engaged in combat against a superior force of enemy pursuit planes. In the course of the action his pilot was killed. Lieutenant Guinet took control of the machine and brought it back under fire to friendly territory and was seriously wounded in the landing.