Isaiah Miller Kling

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Isaiah Miller Kling, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cunel, France, October 20, 1918. Corporal Kling courageously led a detachment of 20 men against a machine-gun position on the right flank of the company, which was causing heavy losses. During the attack all others of Corporal Kling’s detail became casualties, but he continued on alone. Gaining an advanced position in a shell hole, he kept the enemy machine gun under continuous fire until reinforcements arrived and captured it.