Isham R. Williams

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Isham R. Williams, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fossoy, France, July 21, 1918. Lieutenant Williams led a patrol across the Marne River under intense machine-gun fire, and when his boat was sunk, twice swam the river to correct the fire of his covering detachment and to bring his patrol to safety after their mission had been accomplished.