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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Private

    Regiment:

    9th Infantry Regiment

    Division:

    2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    November 4, 1918

    War Department, General Orders 95 (1919)

    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 Private Isaac Marion Estep (ASN: 3175493), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near La-Fontaine-au-Croncq Farm, France, 4 November 1918. Being on duty as stretcher bearer, Private Estep displayed exceptional gallantry and disregard of danger to self in removing wounded from a field swept so by machine-gun fire that the ordinary man would have felt justified in leaving them until the storm had abated. Of the five men engaged in this work, one was killed and Private Estep and one other wounded, while the clothing and equipment of all were riddled by bullets.