The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Donald Marshall Call, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 26 September 1918, while serving with 344th Battalion, 344th Battalion, Tank Corps, in action at Varennes, France. During an operation against enemy machinegun nests west of Varennes, Corporal Call was in a tank with an officer when half of the turret was knocked off by a direct artillery hit. Choked by gas from the high-explosive shell, he left the tank and took cover in a shellhole 30 yards away. Seeing that the officer did not follow, and thinking that he might be alive, Corporal Call returned to the tank under intense machinegun and shell fire and carried the officer over a mile under machinegun and sniper fire to safety.