Michael J. Perkins

Private First Class · U.S. Army

U.S. Army, Company D, 101st Infantry, 26th Division

27 October 1918 · Belieu Bois, France

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Branch: U.S. Army
Era: World War I
Home state: Massachusetts
Action: Belieu Bois, France

The citation

Official citation

He, voluntarily and alone, crawled to a German "pill box" machinegun 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 25 prisoners, at the same time silencing 7 machineguns.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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