Sergeant Herman Korth 32nd Division, 121st Machine Gun Battalion, Company D Under heavy fire from machine guns and artillery. Sergeant Korth crawled to the crest of a hill, near Juvigny, north of Soissons, August 31, 1918, setting stakes to line the American artillery on enemy machine-gun emplacements. He remained in observation in this perilous position for half an hour, signaling back when American troops were endangered by the fire of the batteries. from the book ' Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring ' by Elwyn Alfred Barron and Rupert Hughes, Publication

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Sergeant Herman Korth 32nd Division, 121st Machine Gun Battalion, Company D Under heavy fire from machine guns and artillery. Sergeant Korth crawled to the crest of a hill, near Juvigny, north of Soissons, August 31, 1918, setting stakes to line the American artillery on enemy machine-gun emplacements. He remained in observation in this perilous position for half an hour, signaling back when American troops were endangered by the fire of the batteries. from the book ' Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring ' by Elwyn Alfred Barron and Rupert Hughes, Publication Date 1920 Publisher New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers

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