Alfred A. Grant

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Alfred A. Grant, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Chateau-Thierry, France, on July 2, 1918. With several other officers, Lieutenant Grant encountered an enemy patrol of nine planes. During the combat he became slightly separated from the other American machines and was attacked by three of the enemy. By skillful maneuvering and good marksmanship he destroyed one machine and drove off the other two.