James Hosp

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James Hosp, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Landersbach, Alsace, October 4, 1918. Private Hosp was a member of a party of 50 attacked by an enemy raiding party consisting of about 300 storm troops. During the raid and before the barrage lifted he crossed over open ground to his poet and manned it alone throughout the engagement. During the latter part of the fight he was the sole protection for a group of soldiers near him who had been flanked by the enemy.