Andre P. Gundelach

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Andre P. Gundelach, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Buxieres, France, September 12, 1918. Lieutenant Gundelach, with Second Lieutenant Pennington H. Way, observer, volunteered for a hazardous mission to bomb concentrations of enemy troops. They successfully bombed their objective, but while returning were attacked by eight enemy planes. Their plane was brought down in flames and both officers killed.