Pete Mccoy

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Pete McCoy, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. Unexpectedly encountering seven of the enemy, Private McCoy, single-handed, killed them all with his bayonet and a hand grenade. As a result of this feat he captured four machine-gun emplacements and took 17 prisoners out of a dugout near by. Upon advancing further he found a wounded officer, whom he sent to the rear in charge of another soldier, and continued on to the objective.