Michael P. Mccarthy
Home Town: Girard, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Michael P. McCarthy, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Butgneville, France, November 11, 1918. When violent machine-gun fire had forced his company to take shelter, Sergeant McCarthy, with another soldier, braved the direct and short-range fire, by voluntarily going forward and rescuing a wounded officer, carrying him back to a place of safety.