Penrose V. Stout

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Penrose V. Stout, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charnay, France, September 28, 1918. While engaged in a solitary patrol of the enemy lines Lieutenant Stout attacked an artillery regulating machine. He was almost immediately attacked by five enemy planes, and subjected to infantry and anti-aircraft fire, but fearlessly continued the unequal fight until his machine guns were broken and he was shot through the shoulder and lung.