Joseph Berg
Home Town: Mount Vernon, WA
General Orders No. No. 102, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph Berg, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Croix Rouge Farm, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 27, 1918. When his company was in action near Hill No. 212, Private Berg was posted as lookout while his company was entrenching. He observed the enemy bringing forward machine guns through the wheat fields to place them in position. Waiting until they were within close range, he exposed himself to heavy machine-gun and artillery fire and succeeded in killing or disabling the crews of three machine guns, thus saving his company from heavy casualties.
