John F. Bender
Home Town: Mount Carmel, PA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John F. Bender, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Les Franquette Farm, France July 23, 1918. Private Bender crawled forward and continued to fire into a machine-gun nest until he was killed.