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 James W. Daniels, United States Army, for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy as a member of Company D, 728th Military Police Battalion, on 10 July 1959 at Kusan, Korea. Private Daniels was patrolling the POL pipeline on Kusan Air Base during the hours of darkness when a severe explosion occurred at the pumping station in the vicinity of his patrol. Private Daniels hastened to the scene of the blast to find the area it engulfed in a rapidly spreading fire fed by high octane gasoline from a ruptured main. Hearing cries for help from the adjacent marsh area, Private Daniels voluntarily, and with complete disregard for his own safety and the danger of intense heat, explosion, and spreading fire, waded into the gasoline covered marsh water and, with the help of a comrade located and carried a seriously injured airman to safety. He then, with a comrade, commandeered an Air Force vehicle to assist in the evacuation of the injured man to the Base hospital. Private Daniels’ unselfishness, initiative, and prompt courageous actions saved the airman from possible death by drowning or fire from the spreading gasoline-fed flames, reflecting great credit on himself and the military service.