Fred M. Schultz

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred M. Schultz, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fleville, France, October 4, 1918. Leading his squad through a heavy barrage and against violent machine-gun fire, Corporal Schultz attacked an enemy field gun which had been holding up the progress of our tanks. He disabled the gun crew and took 15 prisoners, after which he personally captured a machine-gun and killed its operator. Although wounded himself, he assisted two wounded members of his squad to the first-aid station.