WWII Honored Veteran * Big Stone County

Dayton John Betts

Entered Service: November 1942.

Branch of Service: Navy

Trained at: Great Lakes, Illinois; Iowa State College, Iowa.

Overseas: May, 1943.

Theatre of Operation:  Atlantic Ocean.

Engagements: Beach head at Anzio, Sicily and Solerno, also invasion of Africa.

Medals Earned: Purple Heart, Five Bronze Stars, Presidential Citation, European Theatre Oak Leaf Cluster.    

Rank: Mo. Machinist Mate 3/c.

Total Months in Service: Thirty months.

Killed in action April 24, 1945 while serving on the Frederick C. Davis, somewhere in the Atlantic. 

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