Arthur J. Paradis
Home Town: Mexico, ME
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Arthur J. Paradis, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Belleau Wood, France, July 18 – 24, 1918. Private Paradis volunteered as a runner and carried messages through heavy concentrations of machine-gun fire. Single-handed, Private Paradis penetrated an enemy outpost and killed all of the Germans who were on guard there.