Abe Johnson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Abe Johnson, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Marcheville, France, September 26, 1918. Private Johnson volunteered to accompany a party whose mission was to bombard a hostile machine-gun emplacement. Under heavy shell fire he approached to within 30 feet of the emplacement, when he was fired upon through loopholes in a stone wall. Working his way behind the wall, Private Johnson enfiladed the enemy -with rifle fire and effected their capture, with the machine- gun.