Wactaw Solinski
Home Town: New York, NY
Status: KIA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 3, W.D., 1921
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Wactaw Solinski, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. Sergeant (then Corporal) Solinski, although seriously wounded in the thigh by an aerial bomb, took command of his platoon after the death of his commander and gallantly led it forward until he fell unconscious.