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 Private Tony Paradiso (ASN: 64349), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company D, 102d Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Epieds, France, 23 July 1918. Fighting with rare courage at Epieds, Private Paradiso bayoneted several Germans and then discovering two machine-gunners in a tree, he crept through the wheat fields alone and killed them. Later he made several trips from Epieds to a dressing station in the woods, traversing a road under constant shell and machine-gun fire.