Raymond Genicke
Home Town: Detroit, MI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Raymond Genicke, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Juvigny, France, August 29, 1918. Private Genicke accompanied an officer in advancing ahead of the first wave under intense machine-gun and shell fire to within a few feet of an enemy trench and captured 75 prisoners. He then entered this trench and took ten more of the enemy.