James M. Wilson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James M. Wilson, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ammertzviller, Alsace, the night of July 8, 1918. Second Lieutenant Wilson returned under fire into enemy barbed-wire to recover two of his patrol who were missing after a raid, and, although painfully wounded himself, brought them safely to the American trenches, concealing the fact of his injury until he had succeeded in his undertaking and fainted from exhaustion.