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 Corporal Curtis Mims Strickland (ASN: 1312553), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company M, 118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Brancourt, France, 8 October 1918. Crawling several hundred feet under deadly rifle and machine-gun fire, Corporal Strickland, with another soldier, flanked a shell hole, wherein a number of the enemy were hiding. In this heroic exploit he either killed or captured 14 of the enemy, as well as taking a machine-gun.