Bennie A. Akins
Home Town: Madison, GA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 23, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bennie A. Akins, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Munster, Alsace, September 12 – 13, 1918. In repulsing a raid on our trenches, Corporal Akins seized an automatic rifle and pursued the Germans across “No Man’s Land” in the face of converging fire of several enemy machine guns.