Phil A. Henderson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Phil A. Henderson, First Lieutenant (Infantry), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Toul sector, France, August 28, 1918. While on an unprotected reconnaissance mission with Lieutenant Edward Orr, pilot, Lieutenant Henderson encountered a patrol of eight enemy pursuit planes near the American balloon lines. When Lieutenant Orr attacked the planes, which had dived at the American balloon, Lieutenant Henderson engaged the other eight enemy machines, which were attacking from the rear. In the violent battle which followed all nine of the enemy were driven off.