Medal of Honor Action Place: near Varennes, France
Citation
During an operation against enemy machine-gun nests west of Varennes, Cpl. 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, Cpl. Call returned to the tank under intense machine-gun and shell fire and carried the officer over a mile under machine-gun and sniper fire to safety.
Additional Details
Awarded Posthumously: No
Presentation Date & Details: February 9, 1919 Chaumont, France - presented by General John J. Pershing
Born: November 29, 1892, New York, NY, United States
Died: March 19, 1984, Bethesda, MD, United States
Buried: Cremated Ashes in Flower Garden, Bethesda, MD, United States