The President of the United States of America, authorized by Executive Order 11046, 24 August 1962, takes pleasure in presenting the Soldier’s Medal to Staff Sergeant Curtis R. Allen (ASN: 34872963), United States Army, for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy while serving with the 90th Infantry Division in northern France. On 13 August 1944, near ****, France, when a vehicle containing French forces passed a road block which Sergeant Allen was supporting, the vehicle hit a mine immediately setting it on fire and wounding the occupants. The fire of the vehicle threatened to explode other mines near it but despite this danger, Sergeant Allen and two comrades entered the burning vehicle and removed the wounded Frenchmen and two American soldiers nearby to a place of safety.