Fred Schick

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred Schick, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-la Naza, France, October 5, 1918. With two others soldiers, Corporal Schick volunteered to crawl out under enemy machine-gun fire, in an effort to locate three members of the platoon, who were missing, after an unsuccessful attack on enemy machine-gun nests. Finding the body of one, they located another, who lay helplessly wounded, by calling out his name. As a result, they drew increased fire from the enemy, but they courageously crawled 25 yards further toward the hostile positions and succeeded in carrying back the wounded man through the machine-gun fire to our lines.