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 Charles Arnold Quick (ASN: 278426), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Headquarters Company, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Argonne Forest, France, October 11 – 16, 1918. Sergeant Quick displayed great bravery in bring up a gun from the 37-mm. platoon, and in the face of enemy machine-gun and sniper fire worked his way well ahead of the front lines and concentrated his fire on the enemy machine-gun nests in such a manner that they were soon put out of action, thereby paving the way for the advancing line.