Otto T. Wischmeier

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Otto T. Wischmeier, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Busigny, France, October 9, 1918. Voluntarily accompanying a party sent out to attack machine-gun posts, Private Wischmier, armed only with a rifle and bayonet, entered an enemy dugout alone and captured a number of Germans.