Robert Pokorny
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert Pokorny, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Roncheres, France, July 28, 1918. Private Pokorny volunteered and went forward to recover the trail of a 37-mm. gun. Despite the great danger of heavy machine- gun fire, he succeeded in recovering and dragging it back to our lines.
