(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: 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 Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Carl Clarence Palm, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with the Anti-Tank Company, 334th Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division, in action against enemy forces in Germany, on 19 November 1944. Hearing that the town of Prummern was taken, Second Lieutenant Palm rushed his anti-tank platoon into town and found that his battalion still was engaged in street fighting. He selected a strategic corner and began setting up his three 57-mm. guns. One was fairly well set and another was almost ready when five new Tiger 60-ton tanks rolled down the street, accompanied by enemy infantry. To give his platoon time to finish setting up, Second Lieutenant Palm dashed to one side and began throwing hand grenades at the tanks and infantry in order to direct their fire toward himself. The tanks kept coming, however, and knocked out the American guns, even though one of them ripped a tread off one tank. The German infantry pursued Second Lieutenant Palm, chasing him in and out of houses and throwing hand grenades at him. He eluded them and got onto a roof overlooking the street where the tanks were. The tank commanders all had raised their hatches and were sitting outside, and Second Lieutenant Palm shot all five of them. He then ran to another house and discovered he was directly opposite a German command post. It was getting dark, so he crept to a window and shot the first three German officers who tried to go in or out of the post. Meanwhile, his battalion withdrew from the town, leaving Second Lieutenant Palm and nine of his men who were separated from him. Down the street one of his Sergeants, who headed a mine-laying squad, began quietly laying a mine field diagonally across the street corner near the German command post and in front of the tanks whose commanders Second Lieutenant Palm had killed. One tank tried to move and promptly knocked itself out on one of the mines. Thus encouraged, Second Lieutenant Palm maintained his siege of the command post all night and well into the next day, when his battalion commander came up under fire, located him and his men, and led them out of the town. Second Lieutenant Palm’s extraordinary heroism, personal bravery and zealous devotion to duty exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States and reflect great credit upon himself, the 84th Infantry Division, and the United States Army.