The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Cook Willis Claude Miller (ASN: 1467810), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 110th Engineers, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Cheppy, Meuse, France, 27 September 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.