Earl S. Noble

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Earl S. Noble, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Forest of Argonne, France, October 9, 1918 After four members of his automatic rifle squad had become casualties in an effort to get their automatic rifle into action against a machine- gun nest, Corporal Noble fearlessly exposed himself, set up the rifle, and silenced the machine gun just as another enemy machine gun on the flank opened fire and killed him.