Thomas Wynn

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas Wynn, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action in the Argonne Forest, France, October 3 and 6, 1918. Sergeant Wynn advanced alone to within 20 yards of the enemy lines under heavy machine-gun fire, after ordering the members of his platoon to take coyer, and cut openings in the enemy’s barbed wire. He then led his platoon in an. attack on the hostile trenches, in conjunction with another company, and captured 15 prisoners. Three days later, this soldier again displayed exceptional courage, when attempts were being made to relieve a battalion of his regiment which had been cut off by the enemy, in leading the first wave of his platoon in the attack, securing a foothold on the top of a hill, and holding it all night. Next morning he renewed the attack, despite the fact that he had been wounded.