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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Corporal

    Regiment:

    305th Infantry Regiment

    Division:

    77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    October 5,1918

    War Department, General Orders 89 (1919)

    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 George J. Werner (ASN: 2444080), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company H, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Bois-de-la Naza, France, 5 October 1918. With two other soldiers, Corporal Werner volunteered to crawl out under enemy machine-gun fire in an effort to locate three members of the platoon, who were missing after an unsuccessful attack on enemy machine-gun nests. Finding the body of one, they located another, who lay helplessly wounded, by calling out his name. As a result, they drew increased fire from the enemy, but they courageously crawled 25 yards further toward the hostile positions and succeeded in carrying back the wounded man, through the machine-gun fire, to our lines.