Elmer R. Haslett

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elmer R. Haslett, Captain (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montfaucon, France, September 28, 1918. While on an artillery surveillance mission Captain Haslett engaged four enemy planes which were about to attack the American balloon line. He succeeded in diverting them from the balloons, but in the combat his machine-guns became jammed. Driving off his nearest adversary by firing a Very pistol at him he succeeded in clearing the jam and, returning to the fight, he destroyed one hostile plane and dispersed the remainder of the group.