Edward F. Kitts

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward F. Kitts, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Epinonville, France, September 26, 1918. Private Kitts, in company with two other soldiers, while advancing well to the front of the company as scouts, encountered eight enemy machine guns and four snipers, which by brave conduct and good judgment were put out of action and the enemy killed or captured.