Dominick Zito

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dominick Zito, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismette, France, August 10 – 11, 1918, On August 10 Private Zito three times volunteered and alone carried severely wounded comrades to the dressing station. Each trip was made through an intense enemy fire, but he unhesitatingly made the trip and returned to his post. On August 11, while assisting three other men to carry a seriously wounded comrade to the aid station, one of the party was killed and the others driven from the road by an intense machine-gun fire, but Private Zeito alone carried the wounded man to a place of shelter from which he was evacuated that night. He was killed that afternoon in the advance line of the attack.