John B. Hutto
Home Town: Birmingham, AL
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John B. Hutto, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Beuvardes, France, July 29, 1918. Sergeant Hutto voluntarily left his 37 MM gun section, which was attached to the reserve battalion, in order to accompany another section into action against the enemy machine-gun nests which were sweeping our lines with heavy fire. When his platoon commander was wounded shortly afterward, he, with another soldier, made his way under heavy shell and machine-gun fire to where the officer lay and after administering first-aid, carried him to a place of safety.
