Robert S. Landstreet
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Home Town: Baltimore, MD
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General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert S. Landstreet, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Consenvoye and Bois-de-la Grande Montague, France, October 8 – 16, 1918. On October 8 First Lieutenant Landstreet led his platoon through machine-gun and rifle fire in an advance which resulted in the capture of 300 prisoners and 12 machine-guns. On the morning of October 16 lie volunteered, with one sergeant, and straightened out the line of an adjacent unit. His movements were under constant machine-gun fire, and so close to the enemy that he, with his sergeant, captured two prisoners while accomplishing their mission.