Will Rogers (Aka: John Foster)

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Will Rogers, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. After a machine- gun had caused great losses in his company, Private Rogers, with three other soldiers, made an attack on the gun, which was lodged in a deep ravine. After his companions had been killed or wounded, he continued with the attack and succeeded in silencing the gun.