Fred C. Graveline

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred C. Graveline, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action near Villers-Devant-Dun, France, and Mouzon, France, September 29 to November 5, 1918. Volunteering to act as observer and aerial gunner because of the shortage of officer observers, Sergeant Graveline started on seventeen bombing missions, successfully reaching his objective on fourteen of these expeditions, shooting down two enemy aircraft. On two occasions, while flying in the rear of his formation, he drove off superior numbers of German machines.