Leo Kowalkowski

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leo Kowalkowski, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Baulny, France, September 28, 1918. Having previously made several trips to the rear with wounded comrades under heavy shell fire, Private Kowalkowski, with another litter bearer, after making three attempts succeeded in reaching their battalion commander who lay wounded under heavy machine-gun fire and carried him back to safety.