Joseph C. Carson
Home Town: Tulsa, OK
General Orders No. 72, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph C. Carson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Les Huit, Chemins, France, September 26, 1918. Sergeant Carson, with two other men, volunteered to rush an enemy machine gun which had concentrated its fire on an opening in some barbed-wire entanglement through which his company was endeavoring to advance. He had successfully silenced its fire when he was killed by the fire of other enemy machine guns.
