Dogan H. Arthur

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dogan H. Arthur, Captain (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the St. Mihiel salient September 12, 1918. Lieutenant Arthur, pilot, and Second Lieutenant Howard T. Fleeson, observer, executed a difficult mission of infantry contact patrol, without protection of accompanying battle planes, on the first day of the St. Mihiel offensive. After being driven back twice by a patrol of nine enemy planes, they courageously made a third attempt in the face of a third attack by the same planes, found the American lines, and after being shot down, but falling uninjured in friendly territory, communicated their valuable information to headquarters.