Eric S. Olsen

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Eric S. Olsen, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Chavignon, France, February 28, 1918. Sergeant Olsen was a member of a working party on the night of February 28, 1918, well out in front of the advance post. His party encountered a violent barrage of the enemy which protected enemy assault troops. He helped to fight off the German troops, and walked back and forth twice under the enemy’s and our own barrage to collect his men. When he heard that his lieutenant was in trouble, he walked back again to his rescue, where the barrage had at first overtaken him.