Victor Petersen
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Victor Petersen, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Forges, France, September 26, 1918. When his platoon was held up by a heavy flanking machine-gun fire, Sergeant Petersen advanced alone ahead of the platoon, on his own initiative, and successfully cleaned up the machine-gun nest with hand grenades and captured the machine-gun.
