Kimon Karelis

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Kimon Karelis, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vieville-en-Haye, France, September 12 – 13, 1918. After he was severely wounded and his squad leader killed, Private Karelis took charge of the squad and directed their fire with such telling effect that three machine-guns which had caused many casualties in our ranks were put out of action. In the counterattack which followed, he personally manned the machine gun after the other members of the crew had been killed or wounded, and continued to operate it until completely exhausted.