William B. Hook
Home Town: Los Angeles, OH
General Orders 98, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William B. Hook, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Thibaut, France, August 9. 1918. While a member of a party engaged in constructing a bridge across the Vesle River, in advance of the Infantry, Sergeant Hook voluntarily plunged into the stream under heavy enemy machine-gun and grenade fire, swam with a line to the opposite bank, which was held by the enemy; and securely tied the end of the bridge to the opposite bank.
