Swan E. Johnson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Swan E. Johnson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Chipilly Ridge, France, August 9, 1918. His company having been held up by concentrated machine-gun and artillery fire, Sergeant Johnson and another soldier went forward and made a reconnaissance, locating a way forward which was protected from direct fire. Although he was badly wounded, Sergeant Johnson returned and led his company along this route, thereby enabling the entire battalion to advance.