Walton B. Ten Eyck, Jr.

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walton B. Ten Eyck, Jr., Second Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Birquenay, France, October 27, 1918. While engaged on a voluntary bombing mission, Lieutenant Teneyck was attacked by seven enemy planes (Fokker Type). Although seriously wounded, he maneuvered Ms plane so skillfully that his observer was able to drive off the enemy planes. In the combat his plane was struck by 25 enemy bullets, some of which exploded the magazines of the observer’s guns. In spite of his wounds and the damage to his machine he succeeded in landing safely on a strange field.