Raymond C. Hill

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Raymond C. Hill, First Lieutenant (Field Artillery), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Lachaussee, France, September 13, 1918. First Lieutenant Hill, with First Lieutenant Clarence C. Kahle, pilot, were directed to take photographs of the old Hindenburg line. They were accompanied by two protecting planes. After they had taken some photographs the protecting planes were driven off by hostile aircraft, but Lieutenant Hill and his pilot continued on their mission alone, until in the vicinity of Lachaussee they were attacked by an enemy formation of nine planes. Putting up a gallant fight against these overwhelming odds, he was shot through the heart and killed, but his pilot, by his pluck, determination, skill, and courage, brought the photographs and the plane to our lines.