Clinton S. Breese

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clinton S. Breese, Second Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Argonne, France, November 2, 1918. While on an infantry contact mission, Lieutenant Breese and his pilot were attacked by four enemy planes and driven back, but realizing the importance of their mission, deliberately returned and attacked the four planes, sending one to the earth and driving the others away. Unmindful of the damaged condition of their plane and of their own danger, they then flew for an hour within 100 meters of the ground through a continuous heavy machine-gun fire until they had accurately located our front line positions.