Frank E. Dee
Home Town: Waterbury, CT
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank E. Dee, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29,1918. When the advance of his platoon had been held up by direct machine-gun fire, Sergeant Dee, severely wounded during the advance, went out in plain view of the enemy, pulled the pin of a grenade with his teeth; and, throwing the bomb with his left arm, put the gun and its crew out of action.
