Major George W. Reynolds, was presented with the Distinguished Service Cross to recognize his extraordinary heroism while engaged in the campaigns in Normandy, France, during World War II. On 11 July 1944, when his platoon was pinned down by hostile artillery, automatic weapons, and small arms, fire, the then Lt. Reynolds unhesitatingly and courageously advanced toward the enemy to reconnoiter a route for support tanks. Constantly exposed to both frontal and flanking fire, he fearlessly crawled along a hedgerow and came to a position from which the enemy was placing devastating fire on his men. With great valor and utter disregard for his own safety, he climbed the hedgerow and brazenly leaped into the midst of seven Germans. In the fight which followed, Lt. Reynolds personally killed three Germans and forced the surrender of four others, thereby completely reducing the strong point and permitting his men to advance safely. By his courage, prowess, and inspiring devotion to duty, Lt. Reynolds acted in keeping with the highest traditions of the Armed Forces.

Major Reynolds joined the Legion of Valor in 1975 and resides in Florida.