Dick Moorefield

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dick Moorefield, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Jaulny, France, November 4, 1918. While leading a patrol in front of our lines, Sergeant Moorefield and his patrol came under machine-gun and rifle fire, and one of his men was severely wounded. He crawled forward with his patrol until within 20 paces of an enemy gun, when, upon raising his head slightly, he saw the German who was feeding the ammunition to the gun. He shot the man through the head with his rifle and wounded another. When the German gun nearest him jammed he captured it, and another one nearby, together with three prisoners. Sergeant Moorefield jumped into the emplacement, cleared the jam in the gun, and turned it on the enemy guns on the right, silencing them. He then sent his patrol and the prisoners back into our lines, covering their retreat with one of the captured guns.