James M. Cooney
Home Town: Shawnee, OK
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 87, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James M. Cooney, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fay-en-Haye, France, September 12, 1918. Corporal Cooney single-handed captured 43 Germans at one time, and later assisted in the capture of many other prisoners and machine-guns.