Jennings C. Wise

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jennings C. Wise, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the Meuse- Argonne offensive, near Nantillois, France, October 4, 1918. Major Wise, while gallantly leading his battalion in the attack was painfully wounded by a shell fragment. He refused to be evacuated but continued to successfully command his battalion in an advance against strong enemy resistance until his battalion was relieved on October 7.