Jerome Buschmann

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jerome Buschmann, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action south of Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. With John Rockwell, private, William F. Rockwell, private; Alfred Shimampwski, private; and Watzlaw Viniarsky, private; all of the same company, Sergeant Buschmann distinguished himself by attacking a party of more than 60 Germans and, in an intense and desperate hand-to-hand fight, succeeded in killing 22 men and capturing 40 men and five machine guns.