Leo N. Mcbreen

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leo N. McBreen, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in Meuse-Argonne, France. September 26, 1918. With three other soldiers, Private McBreen crawled across an open field for two hundred yards, subjected the while to intense artillery and machine-gun fire, to execute a flank attack upon three machine-gun emplacements which were holding up our advance. The enemy positions were silenced, seven of the crew being killed and 23 made prisoners.