Axel C. Lundegard
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Home Town: Chicago, IL
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General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Axel C. Lundegard, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 4, 1918. Private Lundegard went forward alone and unarmed into the enemy’s territory to rescue a wounded man who had been injured in the advance patrol fighting. He succeeded in his mission despite very heavy machine-gun and artillery fire.