Wayne Melvin Cross

Technical Sergeant, U. S. Army

Silver Star

GENERAL ORDERS:
Headquarters, U.S. Army Troops, APO 726 (Attu Landing Force), General Orders No. 27 (July 14, 1943)
CITATION:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Technical Sergeant Wayne M. Cross (ASN: 38040578), United States Army, for gallantry in action as a member of Headquarters Battery, 48th Field Artillery Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, landing Force 51.4, in action in Massacre Valley - Holtz Bay Pass, Attu Island, Territory of Alaska, on 14 May 1943.