The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Hospital Apprentice First Class Levesque L. Whalen, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Corpsman with the Sixth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in action near Vierzy, France, on 19 July 1918. Hospital Apprentice First Class Whalen worked through the day under terrific artillery and machine-gun fire in dressing wounded and removing them to safety. Several times he performed this duty between the opposing lines.