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 Curtis C. Fanning (ASN: 6383252), United States Army, for heroism, not involving actual conflict with an enemy, displayed while serving with Battery D, 83d Field Artillery, in rescuing a Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee from drowning on the Fort Bragg Reservation, N.C., 5 June 1934. The boat in which two enrollees were working while clearing stumps from the enlisted men’s bathing pool, overturned about 100 yards from shore. Private Fanning obtained a boat and went to their assistance, but in the attempt to rescue them, his boat also overturned. One of the enrollees succeeded in reaching shore unaided. With much difficulty and with utter disregard of his own safety, Private Fanning rescued the other enrollee who was in grave danger of drowning and brought him safely to shore where he administered artificial respiration and thereby saved his life.