William J. Wheeler

The Navy Cross is presented to William J. Wheeler, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Seneca, engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of transporting and escorting troops and supplies through waters infested with enemy submarines and mines, and especially for his prompt and judicious action upon two occasions of encounters with submarines, on April 25 and June 28, 1918.