Oscar Clauson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Oscar Clauson, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Scheldt River, Belgium, October 31, 1918. When the advance of the front line was held up by fire from a machine-gun nest 300 yards to the front, Private Clauson with two others crossed the open field in the face of fire from enemy artillery, machine guns and snipers. Charging the nest, they killed two of the crew, wounded two others, and captured five, together with the machine gun.