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 George Frank McGuire, United States Army Air Corps, for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy, while serving with Air Corps, in rescuing an officer from a burning airplane at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, on 11 April 1939. When an experimental airplane which he was piloting with two other officers as passengers suddenly went out of control and crashed, it was almost completely demolished and immediately caught fire. Lieutenant McGuire, dazed and badly cut, was pulled from the wreckage by one of the other officers who had escaped uninjured, but the other officer, wedged in the rear cockpit in a semiconscious state and unable to free himself, was in imminent danger of being burned to death. Seeing the peril of the imprisoned officer and despite the fact that it was obvious that the fire would reach the gasoline tanks of the ship at any moment, Lieutenant McGuire, with utter disregard of his personal safety and ignoring his own injuries, ran back to the ship, and with the aid of the uninjured passenger tore the covering from the cockpit and pulled the trapped and dazed officer out of the ship to safety just before the gasoline tanks exploded, creating a conflagration from which it would have been impossible for him to have escaped. The heroism displayed by Lieutenant McGuire on this occasion reflects great credit upon himself and the military service.