Joseph LEO Hopta

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph Leo Hopta, Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the 55th Company, 5th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action near Vierzy, France, July 18, 1918. Private Hopta captured an enemy machine gun and its crew single-handed under a heavy concentrated machine-gun fire.

The Navy Cross is presented to Joseph Leo Hopta, Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the 55th Company, 5th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action near Vierzy, France, July 18, 1918. Private Hopta captured an enemy machine gun and its crew single-handed under a heavy concentrated machine-gun fire.