Percy Rivington Pyne

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Percy Rivington Pyne, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Dun-sur-Meuse, France, October 23, 1918. While protecting three planes on a photographic mission, Lieutenant Pyne attacked and drove off five enemy machines (type Fokker). Later another German formation of seven (type Fokker) was encountered, but despite the odds Lieutenant Pyne swung up into the midst of the enemy and scattered them, diving on one of the Fokkers and sending it crashing to the ground.