Mike Pirinoli
Home Town: Sebastool, CA
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Mike Pirinoli, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, November 1, 1918. When his company had suffered heavy casualties and had been withdrawn Private Pirinoli went out with another soldier in advance of our lines and. under machine-gun fire to rescue the wounded. His companion shot down, he continued his work, though, constantly exposed to heavy fire, carrying back two wounded men and the soldier who had started out with him.
