John L. Piazza

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John L. Piazza, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Talma Farm, France, October 17, 1918. During the operations of October 17 Sergeant Piazza went through heavy machine-gun and artillery fire to carry a wounded private of his platoon from an exposed position to a place of safety. A short time after, he carried a wounded officer of his company across an open space of 80 yards and a stream, subjected to machine-gun and sniper’s fire, to a place where he could be removed by stretcher bearers.