Alfred Shimanoski

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Alfred Shimanoski, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action south of Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. With Jerome Buschmann, sergeant, John Rockwell, private; William F. Rockwell, private, and Watzlaw Viniarsky, private, all of the same company, Private Shimanoski, 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 49 men and five machine-guns.