Ben Mileski

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ben Mileski, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cierges, France, September 28, 1918. When a platoon of Company I, 147th Infantry, was held up by machine-gun fire from the left flank, Private Mileski, without orders, rushed forward through heavy machine-gun fire, killed the machine gunner, and caused a number of the enemy to surrender.