William E. Sloan

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William E. Sloan, Mechanic, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in actions near Varennes, France, September 26, 1918. Mechanic Sloan continued to advance with his platoon after having been severely wounded and personally guided a tank to an enemy machine-gun nest, whose location he had learned. In the course of this extraordinary duty he was killed.