John Kochanik

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Kochanik, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismes, France, August 4, 1918. Ordering his squad to take cover, Corporal Kochanik, single- handed, rushed an enemy machine gun and killed the two Germans manning it. As he was turning the captured gun on the enemy, this courageous soldier was killed by a sniper.