John Blohm

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Blohm, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Thibaut, France, September 2, 1918. From a shell hole, in which he had taken shelter while returning from a successful daylight patrol across the Vesle River, Sergeant Blohm saw a corporal of his patrol dragging himself through the grass and bleeding profusely from a wound in the neck. He unhesitatingly left his shelter, carried the corporal behind a tree near the river bank, dressed his wound, and using boughs from a fallen tree as an improvised raft, towed the injured man across the river and carried him 200 yards over an open field to the American outpost line, all under continuous rifle and machine-gun fire.