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 First Lieutenant (Air Corps), [then Second Lieutenant] Gordon B. Warren (ASN: 0-744810), United States Army Air Forces, for heroism near Randolph Field, Texas, on 31 July 1944. A training type airplane crashed and caught fire. An explosion of the gas tanks was expected at any minute. Lieutenant Warren, who was approximately 50 yards from the scene of the crash, proceeded thereto immediately and upon arriving at the burning airplane, heroically and at the risk of his life assisted the dazed copilot from the airplane, loosened the pilot’s safety belt and parachute harness, and carried him to safety.