_Dilboy, George, Private, first class_, Co. H, 103rd Infantry, 26th
Division, Boston, Mass.—Belleau, France, July 18, 1918. After his
platoon had gained its objective along a railroad embankment, Private
Dilboy, accompanying his platoon leader to reconnoiter the ground
beyond, was suddenly fired upon by an enemy machine gun from 100 yards.
From a standing position on the railroad track, fully exposed to
view, he opened fire at once, but, failing to silence the gun, rushed
forward with his bayonet fixed through a wheat field toward the gun
emplacement, falling within twenty-five yards of the gun with his right
leg nearly severed above the knee and with several bullet holes in his
body. With undaunted courage he continued to fire into the emplacement
from a prone position, killing two of the enemy and dispersing the rest
of the crew.
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_Perkins, Michael J., Private, first class_, Company D, 101st Infantry,
26th Division, Boston, Mass.—Belieu Bois, France, Oct. 27, 1918. He,
voluntarily and alone, crawled to a German “pillbox” machine-gun
emplacement, from which grenades were being thrown at his platoon.
Awaiting his opportunity, when the door was again opened and another
grenade thrown, he threw a bomb inside, bursting the door open; and
then, drawing his trench knife, rushed into the emplacement. In a
hand-to-hand struggle he killed or wounded several of the occupants and
captured about twenty-five prisoners, at the same time silencing seven
machine guns.