Herbert F. Mckenna

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herbert F. McKenna, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villers-sur-Fere, France, on July 28, 1918. At the beginning of the attack against the enemy positions on the north bank of the River Ourcq, Sergeant McKenna was wounded in the arm by a machine-gun bullet, yet he continued in the advance and took charge of his platoon when its commander was killed. When the first attack was over he received first aid and then returned to his company, where he assumed the duties of first sergeant in addition to his duties as a platoon commander.