Lee S. Hultzen
Home Town: Norwich, NY
General Orders No. 26, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lee S. Hultzen, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vieville- en-Haye, France, September 26, 1918. After reaching his objective with a platoon of about 15 men, Lieutenant Hultzen organized his platoon and held it with three captured German machine-guns. He cleaned out a “pill box” and attacked a dozen of the enemy with practically no assistance.
