Medal of Honor citation of Chief Gunner's Mate Oscar Schmidt Jr. (as printed in the official publication "Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy", page 124):

"For gallant conduct and extraordinary heroism while attached to the U.S.S. Chestnut Hill, on the occasion of the explosion and subsequent fire on board the United States submarine chaser 219, 9 October 1918. SCHMIDT, seeing a man, whose legs were partially blown off, hanging on a line from the bow of the 219, jumped overboard, swam to the subchaser and carried him from the bow to the stern where a member of the 219's crew helped him land the man on the afterdeck of the subchaser. SCHMIDT then endeavored to pass through the flames amidships to get to another man who was seriously burned. This he was unable to do, but when the injured man fell overboard and drifted to the stern of the chaser, SCHMIDT helped him aboard."