Meredith L. Dowd

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Meredith L. Dowd, Second Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Dannevoux, France, October 26, 1918. Having been unable to overtake and join a patrol, Lieutenant Dowd alone encountered four German planes, which he daringly attacked. He fought with most wonderful skill and bravery, diving into the formation and sending one of the enemy to earth. In the course of the combat his machine was disabled and crashed to the earth, killing him in the fall.