Samuel Shaskan
Home Town: Chicago, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 66, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Samuel Shaskan, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Juvigny, France, August 28, 1918. Going out from the front line through barbed- wire entanglements, under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, Private Shaskan brought back to safety a wounded soldier.