Staff Sgt. Waverly B. Woodson, Jr., who died in 2005, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for saving more than 200 casualties during the Allied Invasion of Normandy during World War II.

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Staff Sgt. Waverly B. Woodson, Jr., who died in 2005, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for saving more than 200 casualties during the Allied Invasion of Normandy during World War II.
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