Distinguished Service Cross Recipients

About the Distinguished Service Cross

 

Jasper County

   
    James Norman Hall, captain, 103d Aero Squadron, Air Service. On March 26, 1918, while leading a patrol of three, he attacked a group of five enemy fighters and three enemy two-seaters, himself destroying one and forcing down two others in a fight lasting more than 20 minutes.

Residence at appointment: Colfax, Iowa (Jasper co.)
 
   

 

~source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 360-376

~ Transcribed and contributed by Sharyl Ferrall for Iowa in the Great War Special Project