Gordon L. Schenck

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Gordon L. Schenck, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Argonne Forest, near Binarville, France, October 3 – 7, 1918. While his battalion was surrounded by the enemy, Lieutenant Schenck, by his heroic conduct, while repulsing frequent enemy attacks, inspired his command. Fearlessly exposing himself to fire, he seized his rifle and ran to the top of a bank in front of his company’s position where he was able to throw hand grenades at the enemy until killed by an enemy shell.