Joe J. Donahue

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joe J. Donahue, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Consenvoye, France, October 24, 1918. Venturing over a road where three other runners had failed, Private Donahue carried a most important message over an area which was subjected to the fiercest kind of shelling. He chose this route to expedite the delivery, even though it was possible to make the journey by a longer but less dangerous route. He completed his mission, despite two severe wounds he had received on the way.