Raymond C. Winters

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Raymond C. Winters, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Meuse-Argonne Sector, France, September 26, 1918. When the advance of his company was held up by machine-gun fire from a strong enemy position, Lieutenant Winters led his platoon forward with utter disregard for his personal safety. He succeeded in flanking the enemy position with a squad of riflemen and an automatic rifle team, and by personally directing their fire silenced the enemy machine guns, and thereby assisted greatly in the capture of the position together with 80 prisoners.