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 Captain (Air Corps) James O. Taylor, Jr. (ASN: 0-414429), United States Army Air Forces, for heroism involving voluntary risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy, at Chatham Field, Georgia, on 28 June 1944. On that date, a B-24 type Army airplane crashed in the night and burned. There was imminent danger of explosion of gasoline tanks. Captain Taylor, one of a party of four who went to the rescue of the crew, at the risk of his life stood close to the waist window in the intense heat of the flaming wreck and received the injured men as they were passed out by other members of the rescue party.