Fred Connette
Home Town: Detroit, MI
General Orders No. No. 117, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred Connette, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Bois-les- Jomblets, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 31, 1918. While advancing with the first wave under heavy machine-gun fire and artillery barrage, Private Connette was severely wounded. Knowing there was a machine gun nest directly in front of him, which was decimating the company by its fire, he disregarded his injuries, went forward, and killed the machine gunner and captured the machine gun.
