Stephen V. Shipman
Home Town: Bangor, MI
General Orders No. No. 117, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Stephen V. Shipman, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the woods north of Cierges, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, August 1, 1918. After his company had entered the woods north of Cierges Private Shipman and another soldier maneuvered around a machine-gun which was causing many casualties in the company and reached a shell hole, after crossing an open space that was swept by hostile fire. From here they killed the crew of the machine-gun, captured the gun, and turned it on the enemy.
