Distinguished Service Cross
   
 
 


Distinguished Service Cross

For extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy.

Rank at time of Award/Name, Unit (Town nearest to Location of Act for Which Decorated)

397th Infantry Regiment -  398th Infantry Regiment - 399th Infantry Regiment - Artillery - 325th Engineer Combat Battalion

 

397th Infantry Regiment

Corporal (Later Lieutenant) Robert W. Senser, Cannon Company (Rimling, France)

Private First Class Robert L. Gorell, Company H (Rimling, France) (Posthumous)
Private First Class Ellis J. Hall, Company H (Rimling, France)
Private First Class Charlie A. McCord, Company C (Kuhnmieler, Germany) (Posthumous)

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398th Infantry Regiment

Lieutenant Colonel Ralph C. McCrum, Commander, 1st Battalion (Murrhardt, Germany)

Second Lieutenant Marven L. Larson, Company I (Lemberg, France)

Technical Sergeant Frank B. Bujnowski, Company A (Ödheim, Germany) (Posthumous)

Staff Sergeant Loma H. Hash, Company C (Ödheim, Germany) (Posthumous)

Sergeant Charles E. Compton, Company G, (Heilbronn, Germany)

Sergeant Charles R. Johnson, Company A (Ödheim, Germany)

Technician 5th Grade Joseph P. Nebesney, Medical Detachment (Heilbronn, Germany) (Posthumous)

Private First Class Virgil J. Gooch, Company M (Heilbronn, Germany) (Posthumous)
Private First Class Marco Zagha, Medical Detachment (Rimling, France)

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399th Infantry Regiment

 

First Oak Leaf Cluster

Lieutenant Colonel Elery M. Zehner, Commander, 1st Battalion (Signalberg, France)

Distinguished Service Cross

Lieutenant Colonel Elery M. Zehner, Commander, 1st Battalion (St. Remy, France)

Captain Alfred E. Olson, Company I (Lemberg, France)

1st Lieutenant Warren D. Behrens, Company K (Lemberg, France)
1st Lieutenant George W. Everett, Company B (Flein, Germany)
1st Lieutenant William E. Sullivan, Company B (Bitche, France)

2d Lieutenant Paul F. Loes, Company C (St. Remy, France)
2d Lieutenant Thomas E. Plante, Company A (Bitche, France) (Posthumous)
2d Lieutenant Herbert Verrill, Company E (Reyersviller, France)

Technical Sergeant (Later 1LT) Rudoph Steinman, Company D (Raon L'Etape, France)

Staff Sergeant Real L. Parenteau, Company A (Unter Heinriet, Germany) (Posthumous)
Staff Sergeant Richard Trapani, Company H (Reyersviller, France) (Posthumous)

Sergeant William J. Ansel, Company L (Neufmaisons, France)
Sergeant John Hambric, Company A (Heilbronn, Germany)
Sergeant Vincent Kelly, Company G (Talheim, Germany) (Posthumous)
Sergeant Clifford W. La Belle, Company B (Bitche, France)
Sergeant Emory N. Yount, Company K (Beilstein, Germany)

Private First Class Arthur C. Grimm, Company B (St. Remy, France)
Private First Class Charles W. Hoak, Company C (St. Remy, France)
Private First Class Lonnie Jackson, Company G (Talheim, Germany)
Private First Class Thomas L. Pitzer, Company A (Helfenberg, Germany)
Private First Class Robert L. Reynolds, Company B (Gärnberg, Germany)

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Division Artillery

2d Lieutenant James S. Howard, Battery C/374th FA (Rimling, France)

Corporal Robert L. Ethridge, Battery C/375th FA (Raon L'Etape, France) (Posthumous)

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325th Engineer Combat Battalion

2d Lieutenant Dee W. Crosby, Company A (Wingen-sur-Moder, France)

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