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 Patrick J. Carroll (ASN: 1700228), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company F, 306th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bazoches, France, 15 August 1918. Corporal Carroll led a patrol of five men to the rescue of his company commander, who was lying concealed within twenty yards of an enemy’s machine-gun nest. He advanced through the intense machine-gun fire to the enemy’s position, and, although wounded in nine places, returned to our lines with important information.