Swen Carlson
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Swen Carlson, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in Meuse-Argonne, France, September 26, 1918. On his own initiative, Private Carlson crawled out with three other soldiers across an open field for two hundred yards, subject the while to intense artillery and machine-gun fire, to flank three machine-gun emplacements, which were holding up the advance. With his comrades Private Carlson killed seven of the enemy and captured twenty-three prisoners.
