The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Soldier’s Medal to Staff Sergeant Wilson M. Wimberley, United States Army, for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy as a member of Battery A, 3d Battalion, 76th Artillery, 3d Infantry Division, on 22 December 1963, near Kitzingen, Germany. When notified by a German National that an American soldier was in grave danger of drowning after falling through thin ice covering the Main River near Kitzingen, Sergeant Wimberley immediately drove to the scene of the accident to render assistance. Upon arriving at the bank of the river, he partially disrobed and, with complete disregard for his own personal safety, unhesitatingly crawled and slid over the ice in the darkness of night to reach the helpless soldier. As he approached the panic-stricken man who was clinging to the broken ice which surrounded him, Sergeant Wimberley, calmed him and then succeeded in pulling him out of the freezing water to the safety of the riverbank Sergeant Wimberley’s sound judgment, unselfish actions, and hero a conduct in this emergency air in the highest traditions of the United States Army and reflect great credit upon himself and the military service. [This award supersedes awarded the Army Commendation Medal to Sergeant Wimberley for heroism on 22 December 1963, as announced in General Orders number 24, Headquarters, 3d Infantry Division, dated 27 February 1964.]