Max S. Kos

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Max S. Kos, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Thibaut, France, August 8 – 9, 1918. Private Kos volunteered to patrol the valley along the railroad tracks north of St. Thibaut for the purpose of locating machine-gun nests. He was wounded early in the morning, but he remained in the valley until the next night, securing the information for which he was sent, and killing two Germans.