Willis C. Miller

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Willis C. Miller, Cook, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cheppy, Meuse, France, September 27, 1918. When his platoon had been fired upon at short range by a hostile machine gun, Cook Miller advanced alone, armed merely with a pistol, and although knocked down by an aerial bomb, went forward to the emplacement, killed the two gunners, captured the gun, and made prisoners of the reserve crew of two men who were in a neighboring emplacement.