Charles A. Mccarthy

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles A. McCarthy, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fleville, France, October 5, 1918. With the assistance of one other soldier, Private McCarthy entered a wood where three machine guns were holding up our attack and, under unusually heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, knocked one of the guns out and rushed the second single-handed. With the assistance of the other soldier, he then succeeded in capturing about 20 prisoners who were in or near the machine-gun nest.