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 Charles A. McCarthy (ASN: 105474), 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. With the assistance of one other soldier, Private McCarthy entered a wood where three machine guns were holding up our attack and, under unusually heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, knocked one of the guns out and rushed the second single-handed. With the assistance of the other soldier, he then succeeded in capturing about 20 prisoners who were in or near the machine-gun nest.