Mike Kaminski
Home Town: Detroit, MI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 64, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Mike Kaminski, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Romagne, France, October 11, 1918. Private Kaminski displayed exceptional courage in repeatedly crossing an area swept by machine-gun and shell fire to carry messages to battalion headquarters, after seeing many other soldiers killed or wounded in attempting the same mission. On one occasion he stopped in full view of the enemy to take a message from another runner, who had been wounded.