William P. Hyman
Home Town: Iowa Falls, IA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 88, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William P. Hyman, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the capture of Seringes-et-Nesles, France, on July 29, 1918, by the organization of which he was a part. While holding a portion of the town with his platoon, he found that one of his men was missing. Being told that the man was wounded and lay beyond a hedge at the edge of the village, he unselfishly attempted to locate the wounded man, was caught in direct machine-gun fire, and killed.