The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Private Patrick H. Moreschi (ASN: 31309180), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with the Medical Detachment, 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division, in action against enemy forces in Luxembourg, on 8 February 1945. Private Moreschi, a Medical Aidman, accompanied his rifle company in a hazardous assault across the flooded Sauer River. On the far shore, after the boats had been returned, the company was subjected to a heavy enemy mortar concentration which wounded Private Moreschi and a number of men. This courageous soldier, knowing that the wounded men needed immediate evacuation, boldly plunged into the freezing flood-waters and under a hail of fire battled his way against the swift current to the opposite shore. There, obtaining a boat he made his way back across the river under fire and with the aid of another man succeeded in evacuating the wounded soldiers. Only then did he disclose his own wound. Private Moreschi’s supreme courage and heroic, determined devotion to duty, exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States and reflect great credit upon himself, the 80th Infantry Division, and the United States Army.