Jake C. Sartain

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jake C. Sartain, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Marie Farm, France, September 18, 1918. As Sergeant Sartain was successfully directing the erection of barbed wire entanglements under heavy shell fire, he heard cries for help from the direction of the enemy’s lines. He immediately went out to investigate, and, upon finding a soldier of another organization lying wounded, carried him to our lines, twice passing through enemy machine-gun fire in accomplishing this heroic act.