Joseph J. Dunn
Home Town: Philadelphia, PA
General Orders No. 50, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph J. Dunn, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Argonne Forest, France, September 26, 1918. Having become separated from his combat group, Private Dunn was making his way back to his lines when he came upon a machine-gun crew of four of the enemy. Rushing them with his pistol and hand grenades, he demanded and accomplished their surrender. He returned with the captured men and gun.
