Floyd Hopping
Home Town: Los Gatos, CA
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Floyd Hopping, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Very, France, September 29, 1918. When his company was stopped by a wide belt of barbed wire Sergeant Hopping, then a mechanic, voluntarily went forward, under heavy machine-gun fire, and cut lanes through the wire in several places, thereby enabling his company to push through without casualties.
