Paul F. M. Armengaud

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Paul F. M. Armengaud, Major of Air Service, French Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Mihiel, France, September 12 – 16, 1918. Major Armengaud, acting as Assistant Chief of Staff, Air Service, 1st Army, did display great bravery much beyond that required by his position while acting as observer in an airplane. Each day of the battle in the St. Mihiel salient he flew over the hostile lines through our own and the enemy’s artillery and machine-gun fire, observing the enemy air and ground activity and the disposition of our own air forces, thereby bringing back valuable information as to the enemy’s dispositions and probable intentions, which materially aided in our subsequent operations.