James A. Murphy

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James A. Murphy, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in front of Mount Sec, northwest of Toul, France, March 19, 1918. With his patrol leader Sergeant Murphy cut and crawled through 12 strands of wire in front of an enemy listening post, and with coolness and nerve killed one of the sentinels who was firing at the patrol leader.