Vincil E. Brown
Home Town: Norman, OK
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Vincil E. Brown, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Mihiel, France, September 16, 1918. Seeing a comrade lying wounded and exposed to great danger of machine-gun and shell fire, Sergeant Brown went to his aid; and, after rescuing him, carried him through the sweeping barrage to the first aid station, a distance of one-half kilometer.
