SERVICE RECORD

Enlisted US Army 15 April 1942

Basic Training:  Camp Croft IRTC, SC

Unit: A Company, 1^st Battalion 22^nd Infantry, 4^th Infantry Division

Combat Veteran- European Theater of Operations 6 June 1944-20 October 1945

Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France & Rhineland

Awards: Good Conduct Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge,

Purple Heart, Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster (i.e. 2 Bronze Stars)

European African Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon w/3 service stars

Unit Citations & Awards:

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HURTGEN FOREST (22^nd Infantry cited; WD GO 37, 1946)

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered ST. GILLIS MARIGNY (22^nd Infantry cited; WD GO 14, 1945)

Special 4^th Division Combat Patrol Citation for Meritorious Service 10 October 1944 preparatory to Regimental attack on the Siegfried line. Joseph Bessette listed with other members of the patrol.