Willis W. Hubbard
Home Town: Champaign, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Willis W. Hubbard, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Lironville, France, September 11, 1918. Although starting on a mission which would have taken him away from the place of danger, Lieutenant Hubbard went to the aid of a wounded soldier and was himself severely wounded in the head. Almost blinded by blood, he assisted the soldier to a place of safety and later insisted upon being allowed to remain with the regiment.