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 Captain Alfred Jacobson, Army of France, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 15th Regiment of Artillery, 42d Division, A.E.F. (Attached), near the Ourcq River, France, July 26 to 2 August 1918. When our advance was held up by stubborn resistance of the enemy in the Bois Brule, Captain Jacobson personally took a telephone to a point less than 300 meters from the enemy’s lines and so directed the fire of our artillery as to compel the evacuation of the Bois. He was under continuous shell fire while performing this mission. On 2 August when the regiment had lost contact with the enemy, he went forward with a small party, at great risk of his own life, and developed the enemy’s line.