Vincent Maslowski

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Vincent Maslowski, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Munster, Vosges Front, Alsace, September 14, 1918. Private First Class Maslowski, with other men of his squad, was on duty in a firing trench in combat with the enemy. A grenade thrown by one of the men struck the parapet and fell back into the trench. Private Maslowski seized the grenade and threw it from the trench just as it exploded, thereby saving his comrades and himself from injury and possible death.