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 Swen Carlson (ASN: 1388564), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company M, 131st Infantry Regiment, 33d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in Meuse-Argonne, France, 26 September 1918. On his own initiative, Private Carlson crawled out with three other soldiers across an open field for two hundred yards, subject the while to intense artillery and machine-gun fire, to flank three machine-gun emplacements, which were holding up the advance. With his comrades Private Carlson killed seven of the enemy and captured twenty-three prisoners.