Carl M. Lange

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Carl M. Lange, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fleville, France, October 5, 1918. Seeing that his first line was being held up by machine-gun fire from the woods, Private Lange, with another soldier, voluntarily made his way through a terrific enemy barrage and entered the woods, cleared out three machine-guns, killed several of the crew, and captured about 20 prisoners. Failing in his attempt to communicate the success of his mission to the attacking wave, he himself went back, and, finding his officers had all become casualties, assisted in organizing a small force and leading it to the objective.