Lane E. Stansberry

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lane E. Stansberry, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Flirey, France, September 12, 1918. Sergeant Stansberry, single-handed, captured a machine-gun post with 20 prisoners. In the face of heavy machine-gun fire he later took a pair of pliers from a wire cutter who had been killed, cut a path through the wire, and led his platoon forward in the attack. The extraordinary heroism displayed by Sergeant Stansbery was a great inspiration to the members of his organization.