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The Kennebec Journal's own photograph and caption for the award, "PRESIDENT'S SAFETY AWARD was presented to Irvin G. Oakes...", February 25, 1942, p. 3.

Image · dated 25 Feb 1942 · source: Kennebec Journal, via the owner's signed-in Newspapers.com viewer

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Evidence for

• Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.), 25 Feb 1942, p. 3: "Awarded President's Medal for Saving Life by Prone Pressure" · the original at Newspapers.com

People

• Irving Gilbert Oak 1901–1981