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 Alfred Shimanoski (ASN: 39681), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company G, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, south of Soissons, France, 18 July 1918. With Jerome Buschmann, sergeant, John Rockwell, private; William F. Rockwell, private, and Watzlaw Viniarsky, private, all of the same company, Private Shimanoski, distinguished himself by attacking a party of more than 60 Germans and, in an intense and desperate hand-to-hand fight, succeeded in killing 22 men and capturing 49 men and five machine-guns.