By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D., 1918), Second Lieutenant (Field Artillery) Victor B. Geibel, United States Army, is cited by the Commanding General, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the World War I Victory Medals awarded him. While serving with the 76th Field Artillery Regiment, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, Lieutenant Geibel demonstrated extraordinary heroism in action and great skill in the Bois de Ruvoiville, near Louppy, France, on 10 October 1918. Lieutenant Geibel, in command of a caisson train, while returning with his train from delivering ammunition to a battery under heavy fire, was caught in an extremely heavy fire, and finding that one caisson was missing, sent the train to the rear under a N.C.O., returning himself to look for the missing caisson. He found this caisson with one driver and several horses killed, and assisted the remaining drivers in cutting out the dead horses and in bringing out the caisson. The shelling was very heavy and continuous throughout the entire performance, so heavy, in fact, that many wagons were abandoned by an Infantry train at his place and their horses left to be killed. Lieutenant Geibel displayed great courage and coolness and his bearing was an excellent example to all who saw him.