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 Sergeant Carl Oscar Allison (ASN: 1788002), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 312th Machine-Gun Battalion, 79th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Argonne Forest, France, 2 November 1918. In the face of direct machine-gun fire not more than 40 yards distant, Sergeant Allison mounted a machine gun and succeeded in knocking out one of the enemy guns and taking twenty-five prisoners. Although seriously wounded during this most gallant exploit, he remained at his gun and ably assisted the advancing infantry, until weakness and loss of blood forced him to go to the rear.