Jesse Marlin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jesse Marlin, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Juvigny, France, August 31, 1918. Corporal Marlin was one of a party of three officers and two men, who armed with one German machine-gun and three German rifles, attacked a machine-gun nest held by 70 Germans. Under terrific fire from the enemy, who laid down an artillery barrage upon their position, they concentrated their rifles so effectively that 32 Germans surrendered within an hour. After the prisoners had been brought in Corporal Marlin with a private established another machine-gun in an advanced position, and kept up a concentrated fire on the Germans until he was wounded in the body five times by machine-gun bullets.