The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class David Marion Maxwell, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism on 16 June 1918, while serving as a Corpsman attached to the Fifth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in action at the front in going out into the open to the aid of the wounded under heavy machine and artillery fire, in the performance of which heroic service he was killed.