William A. Shea

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William A. Shea, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cuisy, France, September 26, 1918. Although painfully wounded by machine-gun fire, Sergeant Shea placed himself in an exposed position between two machine-guns, and by the use of his glasses directed the fire of a heavy machine-gun barrage on the enemy. He remained in this exposed position for two hours, and his were the only guns which remained in action under the sweeping fire of the enemy.