Michael Bieryta
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Michael Bieryta, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Harville, France, November 10, 1918. Under terrific machine-gun fire, Private Bieryta advanced through forty feet of wire entanglements, hacking his way with his bayonet, so that his platoon could pass through to their objective. He was mortally wounded by enemy fire as he finished his work.
