American AcornsKennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, February 25, 1942, p. 3. A second report of the same award, naming the October 5, 1941 accident and, in the same article, the 1925 Bingham rescue.
Image · dated 25 Feb 1942 · source: Kennebec Journal, via the owner's signed-in Newspapers.com viewer
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- Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.), 25 Feb 1942, p. 3: "Awarded President's Medal for Saving Life by Prone Pressure" · the original at Newspapers.com