John A. Hogan

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John A. Hogan, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-des-Rappes, France, October 28 – 30, 1918. While Sergeant of a liaison platoon, he volunteered to locate a machine-gun nest, and under heavy fire, went out alone and destroyed it. He volunteered to go out on a dangerous reconnaissance mission and returned with valuable information of the enemy, thus enabling a successful machine-gun barrage to be laid down on the hostile positions.