Howard E. Madsen
Home Town: Baltimore, MD
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Howard E. Madsen, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Consenvoye, France, October 22, 1918. When his platoon was fired on at close range by a machine gun, Sergeant Madsen went forward and killed two of the enemy with grenades, routing the other members of the crew.