The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Colonel (Ordnance Corps) James Browning Dillard, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I, as Chief of the Heavy Artillery Section of the Carriage Division of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, in which capacity he was charged with the design and development of all railway and other heavy artillery; and later as Chief of the Engineering Division of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, in which capacity he was charged with the design and development of all articles of ordnance supplied to the U.S. Army.