John B. Crone
Home Town: West Lebanon, IN
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John B. Crone, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Murvaux, France, November 6, 1918. During the operations of his company which resulted in the capture of Murvaux, Captain Crone, with the aid of two soldiers, rushed a machine-gun nest, capturing the gun and gunner. Later in the day he repulsed a heavy counterattack on the hill Cote St. Germaine.
