Walter H. Wiechmann

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter H. Wiechmann, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Marcheville, France, September 26, 1918. Corporal Wiechmann climbed out from the top of a trench, under machine-gun fire from all directions, to take prisoners in another trench who had thrown up their hands and shouted that they had surrendered. Approaching, he was met with a shower of hand grenades, but he nevertheless stood his ground and opened fire.