The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain (Infantry), [then Second Lieutenant] David Hunter, Jr., United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, A.E.F., at Trugny Woods, France, 23 July 1918. Under terrific machine-gun and sniper fire, Captain Hunter led his battalion scouts into Trugny Woods, two hundred yards ahead of the assaulting waves, and crawling to within thirty feet of an enemy machine-gun nest, killed or wounded every member of the crew. He then crawled from point to point along the front, under intense fire, and noted the position of enemy guns, returning with information which enabled his battalion to clear the woods.
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain (Infantry), [then Second Lieutenant] David Hunter, Jr., United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, A.E.F., at Trugny Woods, France, 23 July 1918. Under terrific machine-gun and sniper fire, Captain Hunter led his battalion scouts into Trugny Woods, two hundred yards ahead of the assaulting waves, and crawling to within thirty feet of an enemy machine-gun nest, killed or wounded every member of the crew. He then crawled from point to point along the front, under intense fire, and noted the position of enemy guns, returning with information which enabled his battalion to clear the woods.
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