Asher E. Kelty

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Asher E. Kelty, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Crepion, France, September 26, 1928. In the course of a photographic mission, Lieutenant Kelty, with his observer, was obliged to penetrate a heavy enemy anti-aircraft barrage, realizing that obtaining the location of the artillery objectives was of the greatest importance. When a shell struck his machine, his observer was instantly killed and his machine so badly wrecked that it plunged to the earth, thereby causing his death.