Otho M. Hagerman
Home Town: Kahoka, MO
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Otho M. Hagerman, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Barricourt, France, November 1, 1918. Seeing his platoon held up by murderous machine-gun fire, Private Hagerman advanced over an open area, in the face of fierce machine-gun fire, to a point within 150 yards of the enemy, from where he destroyed the machine-gun nest with rifle grenades.