Maurice C. Pincoffs
Home Town: Baltimore, MD
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Maurice C. Pincoffs, Captain (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Blanc Mont, France, October 9, 1918. After a withdrawal of the line had been made, Captain Pincoffs voluntarily crossed an open field under heavy fire to a small wood, where he located a number of wounded men, whose injuries he dressed, and directed their evacuation without further casualties.
