Elmer T. Doocy

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elmer T. Doocy, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action near Suippes, northeast of Chalons-sur-Marne, France, July 14, 1918, and near Sergy, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 28 and 30 – 31, 1918. After being severely wounded, with utter disregard of his own safety and comfort, Second Lieutenant Doocy remained on duty with his platoon under heavy fire of gas and high-explosive shells. Again, on Hill 212, near Sergy, he led his platoon and that of another wounded officer forward into a machine-gun nest, under heavy fire, capturing four prisoners and two machine-guns, and two days later, at night, near Sergy, at great risk of his own life, he bravely went out in front of a German sniper and brought back into the line a wounded corporal of his platoon.