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 Technical Sergeant Peter Henry Fleury (ASN: 12157539), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with Company G, 2d Battalion, 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division, in action against enemy forces in Germany, on 16 March 1945. On that date, during an attack on Pfaffenheck, Germany, Sergeant Fleury fearlessly went to the assistance of a platoon that had been pinned down by withering hostile machine gun fire, reorganized the scattered men and gallantly led them forward. When subjected to intense enemy machine gun fire emanating from a building he ordered his men to take cover, heroically advanced alone and killed six enemy soldiers with accurately thrown grenades, silenced the gun and captured three enemy machine gunners. Technical Sergeant Fleury’s intrepid leadership and indomitable fighting spirit are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service.