Vinton Adams Dearing

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Vinton Adams Dearing, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cantigny, France, May 28, 1918. Detailed in command of a carrying party, Second Lieutenant Dearing bravely proceeded under fire to execute his mission, and by his example of bravery heartened his men, who were under fire for the first time. On May 29, 1918, he took his party through heavy shelling to carry ammunition to the front lines without being ordered to do so.