Warren Edwin Eaton

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Warren Edwin Eaton, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bantheville, France, October 10, 1918. With one other pilot, Lieutenant Eaton engaged an enemy formation of 11 planes (Fokker type), though another hostile formation was directly above them. After a severe combat Lieutenant Eaton destroyed one of the enemy planes and, with his companion, drove down another out of control.