The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Corporal Joseph Vedilago (ASN: 1707556), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 308th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Binarville, France, 28 September 1918. Corporal Vedilago crawled from his shelter to get an automatic rifle, after the members of the rifle team had been killed or wounded, and, with this weapon, continued in the advance until he was killed by shell fragments.