Samuel E. Casaga
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders No. 59, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Samuel E. Casaga, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at St. Maurice, France, November 4, 1918. Sergeant Casaga was a member of a patrol which was stopped on the edge of a wood by enemy machine-gun fire. While his comrades returned the fire, he crawled to the flank of the enemy’s position, disregarding the machine-gun fire, and single-handed, captured a prisoner, whom he brought back to our lines.
