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 Marvin Roda, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism while serving with Company B, Replacement Battalion, A.E.F. (Siberia), in action at Vladivostok, Siberia, November 17 – 18, 1919. In answer to a call to save women and children who had been unavoidably entrapped in the railroad station by the fire from contending forces of Russian Government and insurgent Troops, Sergeant Roda boldly entered the zone of fire and rushed to the station which was being fired upon from three sides by machine guns, rifles, and fieldpieces and assisted in bringing back through the fireswept zone a number of women noncombatants.