Howard M. Karg

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Howard M. Karg, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at St. Juvin, France, November 5, 1918. Under terrific enemy bombardment Sergeant Karg carried a soldier, who was overcome by gas, for a distance of 50 yards over a road exposed to the direct fire of enemy machine-gun snipers and shell fire, to a place of safety.