John R. Mcdaniel

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John R. McDaniel, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vilcey, France, September 12, 1918. When his group had been halted by fire from enemy snipers, Corporal McDaniel, voluntarily exposed himself by standing in the open under fire, shot down three of the snipers from one tree and two from another.