Charles A. Quick

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles A. Quick, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Argonne Forest, France, October 11 – 16, 1918. Sergeant Quick displayed great bravery in bring up a gun from the 37-mm platoon, and in the face of enemy machine- gun and sniper fire worked his way well ahead of the front lines and concentrated his fire on the enemy machine-gun nests in such a manner that they were soon put out of action, thereby paving the way for the advancing line.