Eugene Etienne

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Eugene Etienne, Lieutenant, French Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, October 4 and 5, 1918. Lieutenant Etienne personally located a point at which the tanks could cross the stream and then remained at this point under the heavy enemy artillery and machine-gun fire until all the tanks had struggled across. He then led the section in the successful attack on the Bois-de-la-Morine, where the tanks destroyed the enemy machine-gun nests and allowed the American Infantry to reach the objective.