Daniel Erb
Home Town: Emanus, PA
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Daniel Erb, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the village of Dun-sur-Meuse, France, November 5, 1918. Having become separated from the remainder of his company, Private Erb discovered and captured single-handed a hostile machine-gun crew. Taking his prisoners to a dugout near by, he found 48 more Germans, whom he also disarmed.
