William F. Rockwell

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William F. Rockwell, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action south of Soissons, France; July 18, 1918. With John Rockwell, private; Jerome Buschmann, sergeant; Alfred Shimanoski, private; and Watzlaw Vinairsky, private, all of the same company, Private Rockwell distinguished himself by attacking a party of more than 60 Germans and, in an intense and desperate hand-to-hand fight, succeeded in killing 22 men and capturing 40 men and five machine-guns.