The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Major Pere Wilmer (MCSN: 0-3620), United States Marine Corps, for meritorious and distinguished service near Vierzy, France, 19 July 1918. As Battalion Commander, Second Battalion, 6th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F., Major Wilmer showed great courage and an utter disregard of danger in crossing with his battalion an exposed terrain of a distance of three kilometers under intense artillery and machine-gun fire. Major Wilmer led his men on by his example.