Louis Comina
Home Town: Chrysotile, AZ
Status: KIA
General Orders No. 126, W.D. 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Louis Comina, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Varennes, France, September 26, 1918. With two other soldiers, Private Comina voluntarily went forward under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire and silenced an enemy machine-gun nest, killing four of the crew and bringing back 11 prisoners. He was killed in action eight days later.
