Cpl. Jake Allex, Medal of Honor

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Jleksa Mandušić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Мандушић), or Jake Allex Mandusich (July 13, 1887 – August 28, 1959), was a Serbian American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his service in the U.S. Army during World War I.

Allex entered the U.S. Army in Chicago, Illinois, and returned there following World War I with the rank of Sergeant. While in the Army, he served in Company H, 131st Infantry, 33rd Infantry Division.

On August 9, 1918, near Chippilly Ridge, France, when finding all of his officers either wounded or killed and his platoon under heavy attack from the opposing German forces Allex, a Corporal, took command. Leading his platoon forward toward the machine gun nest, his platoon was able to overwhelm the opposition. He alone killed five enemy soldiers. When his bayonet broke, he used the butt of his rifle in close-quarters combat taking fifteen German prisoners. Little is known about his life following the First World War.

He died August 28, 1959 in a Veterans Administration hospital in Chicago. He was buried in the cemetery of the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Saint Sava in Libertyville, Illinois.

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After the war, he went to Serbia and saw the family farm in ruins. His wife was ill and he suspected she would be turned away at Ellis Island because of her health, or because of the immigration quota on Serbians.

He returned to American to send money back to his family.