Amos Chord

The Navy Cross is awarded to Quartermaster First Class Amos Chord, U.S. Navy, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty while serving in the French Unit of the U. S. Naval Aviation Service. Quartermaster Chord took part in an engagement with an enemy submarine on August 13, 1918, off Dunkirk and displayed courage and daring in answering enemy shell fire with a machine gun.