Willis H. Keenan

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Willis H. Keenan, First Lieutenant (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Champagne Sector, France, September 26 to October 1, 1918. Although suffering from illness, First Lieutenant Keenan remained on duty day and night throughout the engagement. When his battalion was in reserve, he voluntarily went forward to the assaulting battalions whose surgeons had been evacuated. In the attack on Sechault he exposed himself continuously to intense artillery and machine-gun fire while rendering first aid.