2.  The applicant requests the Bronze Star Medal (BSM) be added to his report of separation.

3.  The applicant’s military records were lost or destroyed in the National Personnel Records Center fire of 1973.  Information herein was obtained from alternate sources.

4.  The applicant was inducted on 13 February 1943 and entered active duty on 19 February 1943.  He served during the Northern France, Rhineland, and Central Europe campaigns as a medical technician.  He was separated on          1 December 1945.  He had been awarded the Combat Medical Badge.

5.  The applicant submits as evidence a copy of a citation for award of the BSM for his outstanding performance of duties as a medical aid man attached to the 95th Reconnaissance Troop during the Metz and Saarlautern campaigns.  

6.  Army Regulation 600-8-22 also provides, in pertinent part, that the BSM may be awarded to each member of the Armed Forces who has been cited in orders for exemplary conduct in ground combat against an armed enemy between         7 December 1941 and 2 September 1945.  An award of the Combat Medical Badge is considered as a citation in orders.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant has shown credible evidence that he was awarded the BSM.  Plus, he would be entitled to award of the BSM by virtue of his award of the Combat Medical Badge.

2.  In view of the foregoing, it would be proper to correct the applicant’s records as recommended below.

RECOMMENDATION:

That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by showing that the individual was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

BOARD VOTE:

                       GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

                       GRANT FORMAL HEARING

                       DENY APPLICATION

                                                                         
    CHAIRPERSON