Willie L. Woodard

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Willie L. Woodard, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Geneve and Poncheaux, France, October 8, 1918. Early on the morning of October 8, Private Woodard was painfully wounded by severe machine-gun fire, which also riddled his gas mask. Unmindful of his suffering and despite the fact that he had no protection from gas, he continued to press on with his company until he fell exhausted and was evacuated.