Eugene Mcentee
Home Town: Portland, OR
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 19, W.D., 1921
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Eugene McEntee, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 2, 1918. In charge of maintaining telephone communication while advancing with a patrol, Private McEntee showed marked personal bravery and, after being shot in the ankle, refused to be evacuated and advanced for 1,300 meters under heavy machine-gun fire, repairing telephone lines and making it possible to send valuable information to the rear.