ANGELO CESTONI, JR., then Private First Class, 393rd Infantry, United States Army. For extraordinary heroism in action against the enemy on 16 December 1944, in Belgium. When a strong enemy tank-infantry force overran a portion of his company’s front line position, Corporal Cestoni voluntarily crawled toward an emplacement from which two Germans were firing a captured machine gun upon friendly troops. Displaying great courage, he charged the gun position and killed the two enemy soldiers with pistol fire. Although he was twice wounded by fire from a column of tanks approaching his position, Corporal Cestoni, disregarding his painful wounds, fired a rocket into the lead tank, knocking it out of action and forcing the remaining tanks to withdraw.

Mr. Cestoni resides in Pennsylvania.