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 Private Paul H. Chamberlain (ASN: 6121876), United States Army, for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy, while serving with Battery D, 7th Field Artillery, on the artillery range at Underhill, Vermont, on 26 May 1938. During target practice of his organization, Private Chamberlain, a cannoneer of a gun crew of Battery D, 7th Field Artillery, noticed that the fuze head of a round of 75-mm antiaircraft shrapnel, which was being prepared in the fuze setter, was smoking. He quickly turned the fuze setter and the round to safety, and loudly calling a warning to the other eight members of the gun crew, seized the shell, carried it to a heavy woods some distance away from the gun position where he deposited it, and then withdrew to a place of safety. The utter disregard of personal safety and the presence of mind and coolness in the face of great danger to himself and the other members of the gun crew displayed by Private Chamberlain prevented the possible loss of life which might have been occasioned by a premature explosion of the shell.