Charles L. Main
Distinguished Service Cross
U.S. Army
World War I
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles L. Main, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Launay, France, July 15, 1918. Sergeant Main, with an officer and another soldier of his company, attacked a patrol of seven Germans, who had captured four American soldiers, killed one of the Germans, and captured the others.