Private, U.S. Army
Company M, 111th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, A.E.F.
Date of Action: August 10 - 11, 1918
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dominick Zito, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismette, France, August 10 - 11, 1918, On August 10 Private Zito three times volunteered and alone carried severely wounded comrades to the dressing station. Each trip was made through an intense enemy fire, but he unhesitatingly made the trip and returned to his post. On August 11, while assisting three other men to carry a seriously wounded comrade to the aid station, one of the party was killed and the others driven from the road by an intense machine-gun fire, but Private Zeito alone carried the wounded man to a place of shelter from which he was evacuated that night. He was killed that afternoon in the advance line of the attack.
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
Home Town: Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, NY
Company M, 111th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, A.E.F.
Date of Action: August 10 - 11, 1918
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dominick Zito, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismette, France, August 10 - 11, 1918, On August 10 Private Zito three times volunteered and alone carried severely wounded comrades to the dressing station. Each trip was made through an intense enemy fire, but he unhesitatingly made the trip and returned to his post. On August 11, while assisting three other men to carry a seriously wounded comrade to the aid station, one of the party was killed and the others driven from the road by an intense machine-gun fire, but Private Zeito alone carried the wounded man to a place of shelter from which he was evacuated that night. He was killed that afternoon in the advance line of the attack.
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
Home Town: Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, NY
Private, U.S. Army
Company M, 111th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, A.E.F.
Date of Action: August 10 - 11, 1918
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dominick Zito, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismette, France, August 10 - 11, 1918, On August 10 Private Zito three times volunteered and alone carried severely wounded comrades to the dressing station. Each trip was made through an intense enemy fire, but he unhesitatingly made the trip and returned to his post. On August 11, while assisting three other men to carry a seriously wounded comrade to the aid station, one of the party was killed and the others driven from the road by an intense machine-gun fire, but Private Zeito alone carried the wounded man to a place of shelter from which he was evacuated that night. He was killed that afternoon in the advance line of the attack.
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
Home Town: Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, NY
Company M, 111th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, A.E.F.
Date of Action: August 10 - 11, 1918
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dominick Zito, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismette, France, August 10 - 11, 1918, On August 10 Private Zito three times volunteered and alone carried severely wounded comrades to the dressing station. Each trip was made through an intense enemy fire, but he unhesitatingly made the trip and returned to his post. On August 11, while assisting three other men to carry a seriously wounded comrade to the aid station, one of the party was killed and the others driven from the road by an intense machine-gun fire, but Private Zeito alone carried the wounded man to a place of shelter from which he was evacuated that night. He was killed that afternoon in the advance line of the attack.
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
Home Town: Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, NY
Inscription
PVT. 111th INF. 28th DIV. NEW YORK
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
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