Willard Keith

Willard Keith

Willard Woodward Keith, Jr. (June 13, 1920 - November 3, 1942) was a United States Marine Corps officer who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal. Two cancelled United States Navy destroyer escorts and the destroyer USS Willard Keith (DD-775) were named in his honor.

Read more about Willard Keith:  Biography, Namesakes

Famous quotes containing the words willard and/or keith:

    “Rocked in the cradle of the deep
    I lay me down in peace to sleep;
    Secure I rest upon the wave,
    For Thou, O Lord! hast power to save.”
    —Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)

    “What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)