Michael F. Fitzpatrick

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Michael F. Fitzpatrick, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Landres et St. Georges, France, October 14, 1918. After his platoon commander had been killed, Sergeant Fitzpatrick took command of the platoon. Although painfully wounded in the arm early in the engagement and constantly exposed to intense machine-gun and artillery fire and gas, he remained at his post directing and encouraging his men until his platoon was relieved late that night, when he was evacuated.