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 Glen R. Jackson (ASN: 6718645), United States Army, for heroism, not involving actual conflict with an enemy, displayed while serving with 1st Platoon, Headquarters Battery, 1st Coast Artillery, at Galeta Island, Fort Randolph, Canal Zone on 9 November 1934. An observation plane piloted by Second Lieutenant Morris Goldberg, Air Corps, and containing one passenger, crashed into a harbor defense searchlight tower, hung to the tower and burst into flames. Private Jackson, together with a companion at imminent danger to their own lives from exploding machinegun bullets and flaming gasoline dashed through the flames and rescued Lieutenant Goldberg from the burning airplane.