Salvatore Dicarlo
Home Town: Los Angeles, CA
General Orders No. 42, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Salvatore Dicarlo, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vierzy, France, July 18,1918. Single-handed, Private Di Carlo attacked and captured three enemy machine guns and eight prisoners. Later he rendered first aid to wounded comrades and assisted them from the field under intense machine-gun and artillery fire.
