Arthur H. Alexander

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Arthur H. Alexander, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action on between Friauville and Lamorville, France, September 4, 1918. While on a bombing expedition with other planes from his squadron Lieutenant Alexander engaged in a running fight over hostile territory with a superior number of enemy battle planes from Friauville to Lamorville, France. He was seriously wounded in the abdomen by a machine-gun bullet, and his observer was shot through the legs. Although weak from pain and loss of blood, Lieutenant Alexander piloted his plane back to his own airdrome and concealed the fact of his injury until after his observer had been cared for.