Willie Green
Home Town: Hastings, OK
General Orders No. No. 127, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Willie Green, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vilcey, France, September 13, 1918, While officers were holding a conference in a dugout on our outpost line, a German patrol came across a small footbridge directly to the entrance of the dugout and threw a grenade inside. Corporal Green, without any thought of personal danger, in order to save his officers from injury, stood on the grenade and then shot two of the retreating patrol.
