John J. Quinn

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John J. Quinn, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bantheville, France, October 23, 1918. While patrolling the lines, Lieutenant Quinn, with one other pilot, sighted and attacked four enemy machines (Fokker type). Several additional enemy planes joined the first four, and, notwithstanding his great odds, he sent one machine crashing to the earth. Motor trouble forced him to drive straight through the enemy formation, and, although followed and his machine badly damaged, he was able to outmaneuver and escape from his adversaries.