Jim Quinn

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jim Quinn, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. With a small platoon Second Lieutenant Quinn attacked and captured a fortified French farmhouse in an open field. He so courageously and skillfully handled his men that this German strongpoint, held by 100 men and five machine-guns, was promptly captured.