During a firefight on that day near Eisern, Germany, he rescued three wounded men, single-handedly disabled two German machine gun nests and led his squad in the capture of two others, all despite his injuries.

First Lieutenant Will's official Medal of Honor citation reads: He displayed conspicuous gallantry during an attack on powerful enemy positions.

Ignoring the profuse bleeding of his wound, he gallantly led men of his platoon forward until they were pinned down by murderous flanking fire from 2 enemy machine guns.

He fearlessly crawled alone to within 30 feet of the first enemy position, killed the crew of 4 and silenced the gun with accurate grenade fire.

[2][3] In November 1948, the Army transferred her to the fleet of the United States Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, in which she served as MV Dennis Winn.