Robert B. Hood

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert B. Hood, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Thiaucourt, France, September 12, 1918. While acting as executive officer, Captain Hood brought the battery into action under fire, superintended the placing of the guns and the unloading of the ammunition, and directed the fire of the battery under an intense enfilading fire. When the entire gun crew of his first piece was wiped out, he hastily formed a supplementary gun squad and succeeded in getting the first piece into action again within four minutes.