Guiseppe Spadafora
Home Town: Philadelphia, PA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Guiseppe Spadafora, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montfaucon, France, September 29, 1918. Private Spadafora was helping to remove a great many wounded men from a dressing station to a place of comparative safety, when a heavy enemy bombardment began. He forced four German prisoners to assist him and repeatedly entered the heavily shelled area, bringing out wounded men.