Willard Dillenbeck
Home Town: Delavan, WI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 132, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Willard Dillenbeck, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 21, 1918. Private Dillenbeck repeatedly carried messages from his company to platoon commanders, in daylight across open ground in full view of the enemy and under heavy bombardment.