Alvin Beethe

World War II
Service #O-766396
Unit393rd Fighter Squadron, 367th Fighter Group
RankSecond Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Nebraska
Date of DeathNovember 26 1944
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Notes
2LT Beethe was among those WW II Dead whose was listed as missing in action, lost or buried at sea whose name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial. His remains have been recovered and identified in 2015.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.