The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Private First Class Carl M. Lange (ASN: 105472), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 2d Machine-Gun Battalion, 1st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Fleville, France, 5 October 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.