Benjamin G. Stankunos
Home Town: Shamokin, PA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Benjamin G. Stankunos, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, November 5, 1918. With two other soldiers, Private Stankunos voluntarily left a place of safety, went forward 40 meters under machine-gun fire in plain view of the enemy, and rescued another soldier, who had been blinded by a machine-gun bullet and was helplessly staggering about.