The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Airman’s Medal to Staff Sergeant Edward J. Glass, United States Air Force, for heroism involving voluntary risk of life on the swollen channel of the Murderkill River, on 1 August 1964. During an afternoon of routine summer fun, two seven year old girls were floating on a small raft in shallow water near the beachhead, when a sudden gust of wind guided the raft into the swollen channel that was agitated with unpredictable waves. The panic-stricken mothers of the two girls rushed unhesitatingly into the treacherous waves aided by another man and a woman. The rescue attempt had to be aborted when one mother had to be pulled from the channel, and the two girls were being swept by the tide farther out into the bay. The woman would-be rescuer finally reached the raft and clung to a channel marker to prevent the raft from being swept further out into the bay. Staff Sergeant Glass, who was fishing nearby, overheard the screams for help, jumping into the water to swim to the raft, one-by-one swimming them to the safety of the shore. The exemplary courage and heroism displayed by Staff Sergeant Glass reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.