Samuel H. Hanna
Home Town: Van Nuys, CA
General Orders No. No. 5, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Samuel H. Hanna, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Bois-du-Fays, France, September 30, 1918. When Company C, 58th Infantry, was temporarily halted by heavy machine-gun fire, Sergeant Hanna exposed himself to enfilading fire in order to place his guns in position to execute a covering fire for the Infantry. With the aid of the fire from the machine guns under his command the advance was resumed. In the performance of this deed he was mortally wounded.
