Joseph F. Petrovic

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph F. Petrovic, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fleville, France, October 5 – 7,1918. When a shell burst near his gun, throwing him across the train of the piece and killing or wounding all of the section but himself and one other cannoneer, Corporal Petrovic and the latter succeeded in repairing the piece and continued the rolling barrage until it became impossible to fire the gun again. Two days later, under almost identical circumstances, he and one other soldier continued at their post, after the other members of the crew had been wounded, and continued to serve the piece until the completion of the barrage.