Wilbur M. Chapin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Wilbur M. Chapin, Private First class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fossoy, France, on the night of July 14 – 15, 1918, and near Cunel, France, October 11, 1918. During the German offensive of July 15, Private Chapin, while under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, carried three messages to front-line platoons. On October 11, in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, after all his squad were killed by a shell which buried the gun, Private Chapin dug the gun out and moved to a new position, where he resumed firing on the enemy and assisted in repulsing a counterattack.