COL ELAM W. WRIGHT, JR., was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for actions on 17 December 1944, near Kaysersberg, France. He led a fifteen-man platoon in an assault on a hill ringed by concrete machine gun emplacments and covere by 88mm fire. Advancing ahead of his men he knocked out a machine gun at thirty yards with rifle grenades and captured eight Germans. He then forced the surrender of four Germans manning a second machine gun and charged toward the crest of the hill to envelop a double machine gun, driving off its crew with machine pistol fire.

COL Wright was a life member.