Arthur H. Vogel
Home Town: Heber, CA
General Orders No. 133, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Arthur H. Vogel, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Sitsa, Siberia, June 26, 1919. Corporal Vogel voluntarily ran a railway locomotive past a cliff three different times to draw the fire of a large force of bandits in order to locate their exact position, so that the bandits could be driven off by machine-gun fire in order to clear the way for a wagon train. On each trip he was subjected to heavy rifle fire, the cab of the engine being punctured in several places, and his Russian assistant slightly wounded.
