Bernard Nelson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bernard Nelson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Landres St. Georges, France, October 14, 1918. During the attack on Hill 288, when the assault wave was held up by intense machine-gun fire, Sergeant Nelson volunteered and led two squads to silence these guns. He cut his way through strong barbed-wire entanglements, advanced up a very steep slope in the face of direct machine-gun fire, entered the trench, and killed or wounded the entire crews of the two guns, making it possible for the battalion to advance.