Lee Pearman, Jr.

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lee Pearman, Jr., Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, France, September 30, 1918. When the advance of the platoon was being held up by heavy enemy machine-gun fire, Private Pearman left his place of comparative safety and succeeded in getting close enough to the machine guns nest to use a hand grenade, which proved very successful, killing four and wounding one of the enemy, thereby breaking up the next completely and enabling the platoon to advance. In the performance of this act Private Pearman was killed instantly.