Bernard Schultheis

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bernard Schultheis, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Terny-Sorny, north of Soissons, France, September 1, 1918. When the infantry was advancing in a position exposed to cross fire, he volunteered and carried a message to the advancing troops, informing them that a machine-gun barrage laid down on the enemy emplacements was friendly fire from a unit not in their support and acting without orders to cover their advance. He delivered the message, returned across an open field swept by enemy machine-guns and thereby made it possible for the infantry unit to advance 400 meters and gain its objective.