Joseph J. Loughlin
Home Town: Wilmington, NC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph J. Loughlin, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Moranville, France, November 9, 1918. At the sacrifice of his own life Captain Loughlin went forward through heavy machine-gun fire to locate a nest of machine-guns which was holding up the advance of the regiment. He located the machine-guns so that the one- pounders could silence them, but was killed by the enemy machine-gun fire.