Earl S. King

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Earl S. King, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Badonviller, France, May 29, 1918. During a raid on our trenches by a superior enemy force Private King, while rushing to the assistance of his commanding officer, engaged two of the enemy in a hand-to-hand bayonet fight and, although fatally wounded in this encounter, he succeeded in killing one of his opponents and prevented the attack on the flank from penetrating into our lines.