David Hunter, Jr.
Home Town: Rockford, IL
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to David Hunter, Jr., Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Trugny Woods, France, July 23, 1918. Under terrific machine-gun and sniper fire, Captain Hunter (then Second Lieutenant) led his battalion scouts into Trugny Woods, two hundred yards ahead of the assaulting waves, and crawling to within thirty feet of an enemy machine-gun nest, killed or wounded every member of the crew. He then crawled from point to point along the front, under intense fire, and noted the position of enemy guns, returning with information which enabled his battalion to clear the woods.
