Sam Saplio
Home Town: Marion, WV
General Orders No. No. 128, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Sam Saplio, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismette, France, August 10 – 12, 1918. Without fear or thought for his personal safety, Private Saplio sought out enemy snipers posted in trees and killed a number of them. Later, with Sergeant John W. Thompson, he attacked an enemy machine-gun nest, killed the crew, and turned the gun on the enemy, operating it with deadly effect on the infantry and machine-gun positions, killing the gun crews and capturing ten machine- guns.
