Benjamin Prager

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Benjamin Prager, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismes, France, August 11, 1918. On his own initiative and under heavy fire, Sergeant Prager led an automatic-rifle squad to a house far in advance of our lines, and, by purposely exposing himself at a window, drew fire from an enemy machine-gun, thus disclosing its position and enabling his squad to destroy it. After being wounded he refused to be evacuated until he had visited another portion of the line and assured himself that the position was well consolidated.