Guy R. Hinson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Guy R. Hinson, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in Canal sector, Belgium, August 27, 1918. Sergeant First Class Hinson was in charge of a platoon, delivering a highly concentrated gas-cloud attack against the enemy, when the cloud unexpectedly flared back. After leading his men to a place of safety, this soldier went back into the cloud four times at imminent peril to his own life, collecting and rescuing others who had been overcome. Conducting his platoon through heavy machine- gun fire, he put them in charge of another sergeant with instructions to resume their mission, while he again returned to search for gassed men, and found all but two. His excellent leadership and unusual courage prevented many casualties and at the same time effected the completion of an important mission.