Joe F. Farkas

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joe F. Farkas, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Thiaucourt, France, September 12, 1918. As Sergeant Farkas was leading his platoon in an attack on a machine-gun nest, a bullet struck him in the eye, destroying its sight. Despite this agonizing wound he continued in advance and put the enemy machine-gun nest out of action, refusing to seek medical aid until the success of his platoon’s mission had been assured, more than an hour and a half later.