Kingman Douglass
Home Town: Oak Park, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Kingman Douglass, Captain (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Longuyon, October 31, 1918, While on a photographic mission Captain Douglass encountered a superior number of enemy pursuit planes. Notwithstanding the odds against him, he turned and dived on the hostile formation, destroying one plane and damaging another. He then continued on his mission and returned photographs of great military value.