Martin J. Paauwe

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Martin J. Paauwe, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Georges, France, October 14, 1918. After the advance of his platoon had been stopped by severe fire from an enemy machine-gun nest, Corporal Paauwe, assisted by another soldier, reorganized the platoon and placed it under cover. Corporal Paauwe and his companion then charged the enemy machine-gun nest and captured it, together with one officer and twenty men.