John C. Rockwell

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John C. Rockwell, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action south of Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. With Jerome Buschmann, private; William F. Rockwell, private; Alfred Shimanoski, private, and Watzlaw Viniarsky, private, all of the same company, Private Rockwell 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.