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*[[List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I]]
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James I. Mestrovitch
Medal of Honor recipient
Born(1894-05-22)May 22, 1894
Bay of Kotor, Austrian Littoral
(modern Montenegro)
DiedNovember 4, 1918(1918-11-04) (aged 24)
France
AllegianceUnited States of America
Service / branchUnited States Army
RankSergeant
UnitCompany C, 111th Infantry, 28th Division
AwardsMedal of Honor

James I. Mestrovitch (22 May 1894 - 4 November 1918) was an American sergeant who received America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor— for his actions in World War I. Sgt Mestrovitch, an ethnic Serb, was born in the Boka Kotorska, and after immigrating to the United States in 1913 lived in Fresno, California. He enlisted in the U.S. Army at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died from the Spanish flu one week before the armistice.

Medal of Honor citation

Citation

Seeing his company commander Iying wounded 30 yards in front of the line after his company had withdrawn to a sheltered position behind a stone wall, Sgt. Mestrovitch voluntarily left cover and crawled through heavy machinegun and shell fire to where the officer lay. He took the officer upon his back and crawled to a place of safety, where he administered first-aid treatment, his exceptional heroism saving the officer's life.

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References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Army Center of Military History.
  • "World War I Medal of Honor recipients". United States Army Center of Military History,. Retrieved May 18, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

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