WISCHMEIER, Otto T.

WISCHMEIER

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 8/9/2004 at 07:00:27

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
Otto T. Wischmeier, private, Company L, 117th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Busigny, France, October 9, 1918. Voluntarily accompanying a party sent out to attack machine gun posts, Pvt. Wischmeier, armed only with a rifle and bayonet, entered an enemy dugout alone and captured a number of Germans.

Residence at enlistment: Route No. 2, West Burlington, Iowa

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 374

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall