Gustave A. Michalka

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Gustave A. Michalka, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cierges, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 31, 1918. When his platoon advanced up the slope in front of the Bois les Jomblets, it became necessary to put out of action an enemy machine gun that was cutting up the platoon. Corporal Michalka grasped the situation and at the risk of his own life advanced upon the nest with two of his men, killed the operators, and captured the gun.