Louis Witte

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Louis Witte, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Roncheres, France, July 30, 1918. When all the other members of his automatic rifle squad had been killed or wounded Sergeant Witte (then a private) took the dead gunner’s automatic rifle and kept it in action against the enemy. Considerable enemy machine-gun fire was thereby drawn upon his and he was wounded, but he nevertheless continued to maintain an effective fire while the remainder of his company was withdrawing. He remained at his post firing until the entire company had withdrawn.