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ANDRYKOWSKI,
VICTOR
Private, U.S. Army Home: Saginaw, Michigan Company G, 125th Infantry Regiment, 32d Division, A.E.F. Date of Action: July 31 - August 3, 1918 General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919 Citation: The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Victor Andrykowski, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Courmont and St. Martin, France, July 31 - August 3, 1918. Throughout the battle to force passage of the
Ourcq River and capture the heights beyond, Private Andrykowski, a stretcher
bearer, worked day and night, evacuating wounded under heavy artillery
and machine-gun fire. On August 3, under violent shell fire opposite Mont
St. Martin, he made repeated trips between the firing line and the dressing
station until he was killed by a shell.
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