Richard D. Shelby

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Richard D. Shelby, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 10, 1918. Lieutenant Shelby encountered six enemy planes at a very low altitude strafing our trenches. He immediately attacked and dispersed the enemy planes and by skillful maneuvering brought one of the planes down just behind his own lines.