Daniel M. Dwiggins

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Daniel M. Dwiggins, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Beuvardes, France, July 29, 1918. Commanding a platoon of 37 mm. guns, Lieutenant Dwiggins carried two guns over the top of a hill 7212, under intense machine-gun fire, and placing them in an open wheat field and opened effective fire at short range on the enemy machine-gun nests. Heavy shell fire was directed at his guns and one of them was put out of action. Sending his men to cover, beneath the crest of the hill he remained with the second gun, in the face of heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, Even being wounded in the leg by a machine-gun bullet, he continued to fire his gun until it exploded, displaying remarkable disregard for personal safety.