McCarthy, Charles A. - War Hero

MCCARTHY

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 8/2/2004 at 04:26:42

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
Charles A. McCarthy, private, Company B, 2d Machine Gun Battalion. For extraordinary heroism in action near Fleville, France, October 5, 1918. With the assistance of one other soldier Pvt. 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 assistance of the other soldier he then succeeded in capturing about 20 prisoners who were in or near the machine gun nest.

Residence at enlistment: Blairsburg, Iowa

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 367

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall