John R. Castleman

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John R. Castleman, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Romagne, France, October 5, 1918. In spite of being attacked by seven enemy planes, type Fokker, and later by five type Pfalz, Lieutenant Castleman successfully accomplished a photographic mission 6 kilometers behind the German lines, without protection, and also destroyed two of the enemy planes.