Loater Loyd Mckinney

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Loater Loyd McKinney, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montbrehain, France, October 8, 1918. Accompanying two comrades, Private McKinney attacked with hand grenades an enemy machine-gun stronghold, containing at least 40 Germans and four machine guns, and forced the enemy to surrender.