John M. Nowak

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John M. Nowak, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismes, France, August 4, 1918. After being severely wounded Sergeant Nowak refused to go to the rear for first aid, but bravely continued in the advance. While he was helping to reform his company under a heavy machine-gun barrage shortly afterwards he was killed.