Curtis L. Yeager

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Curtis L. Yeager, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 12, 1918. Private Yeager, in an exposed position, under heavy machine- gun and artillery barrage, kept up an effective fire from his automatic rifle until severely wounded. After waiting seven hours with a comrade for a stretcher, and only one arriving, although practically unconscious he insisted on his comrade leaving first.