Arvid W. Gulbrandsen

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Arvid W. Gulbrandsen, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Chaume, France, October 8, 1918. Leading his platoon against an enemy machine-gun nest which was inflicting severe casualties on his battalion, Lieutenant Gulbrandsen continued to advance alone in the face of the annihilating machine-gun fire, after 14 of his men were killed about him. Before reaching his objective, he was killed by machine-gun fire from his right flank.