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 Private First Class Bush H. Chancey, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with the weapons platoon Company B, 1st Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment, 33d Infantry Division, in action against enemy forces near Yagyagan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, on 21 April 1945. Private First Class Chancey, a machine gunner, was attached to a platoon assigned to spearhead the attack on a strategic hill near Yagyagan. Against heavy enemy fire, the Division fought the Japanese off a narrow ridge. As thew enemy organized for a counterattack, his platoon hastily set up defenses for the hard-won hilltop. Thick brush masked the sides of the hill to within six yards of their positions. So narrow as the ridge that when Private First Class Chancey set up his machinegun, there was no room for his assistant gunner, and hardly had he set his gun in position when the Japanese launched a banzai attack from the covering brush. Exposed as he was to the rifle, grenade, and mortar fire of the enemy, Private First Class Chancey halted the attack with his machinegun. Almost immediately the enemy launched a second determined charge, the intense covering fire killing one of the American defenders and wounding three others. A grenade exploded so close that fragments struck Private First Class Chancey’s gun. The second attack was stopped, but not before most of the platoon’s riflemen had been driven back, leaving Private First Class Chancey in an exposed forward position. The Japanese struck for the third time, the machine gun was the chief target. Courageously, Private First Class Chancey refused to draw back and continued to spray bullets into the attackers. The attack was driven off only after one enemy soldier with a bayonet had worked to within arm’s length of Private First Class Chancey, who killed him with a pistol. A search the following day of the woods from which the Japanese attacked revealed 37 Japanese bodies, most of them credited to Private First Class Chancey’s deadly fire. Private First Class Chancey’s extraordinary heroism, personal bravery and zealous devotion to duty exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States and reflect great credit upon himself, the 33d Infantry Division, and the United States Army.