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 Corporal Louis Klebanow (ASN: 1705544), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company E, 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Chateau du Diable, near Fismes, France, 27 August 1918. During the attack, after several runners had failed to deliver an important message, Corporal Klebanow voluntarily carried the message from the battalion commander to a flank company through intense machine-gun and shell fire. Returning through the same bombardment with the reply, he then led reinforcements forward to the flank company which enabled the company to resist successfully a counterattack by superior forces. Earlier in the same day, under direct machine-gun fire, he voluntarily went to the aid of a wounded officer, bound up his wounds, and assisted him to shelter.
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Distinguished Service Cross
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Distinguished Service Cross
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United States ArmyRank:
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307th Infantry RegimentDivision:
77th Division, American Expeditionary ForcesAction Date:
September 4, 1918
War Department, General Orders No. 4, 1936The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Distinguished Service Cross to Corporal Louis Klebanow (ASN: 1705544), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company E, 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Fismes, France, on the night of 4 September 1918. Although severely wounded by an exploding shell in a congested road which killed or wounded four officers and every enlisted man in the detachment, Corporal Klebanow directed the evacuation of the wounded and kept the road open for traffic.