John Capezio
Home Town: Newark, NJ
General Orders 78, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Capezio, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Beaumont, France, November 4, 1918. In the face of heavy machine-gun and shell fire, Private Capezio led a squad in a flank attack on an enemy machine-gun nest, which was holding his company and endangering the success of its mission. Through his coolness and bravery under fire, the enemy machine guns and the entire crew was captured.
