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Personal info

Full name
BESTE, Jack John
Date of birth
6 July 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Michigan
Hometown
Washington County, Oregon

Military service

Service number
19004047
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
30 September 1944
Place of death
Ooijpolder, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 5 8

Immediate family

Members
Anthony Beste (father)
Margaret (Stevenson) Beste (mother)
LaVerne Beste (sister)
Marie M. Beste (sister)
James J. Beste (brother)
Phyllis Beste (sister)
Anthony Beste (brother)
Emily Beste (sister)

More information

Pvt Jack J. Beste attended high school for three years and worked in a bakery. In 1940 he lived in the St Marys Home For Boys.

He joined the Regular Army in Portland, Oregon on 16 July 1940.

He died of of wounds in Ooijpolder and was initially buried at Molenhoek Cemetery near Nijmegen, the Netherlands on 1 October 1944. He was later transferred to Margraten on 14 June 1948. His remains were prepared and placed in a casket on 18 June 1948 and he was given his final resting place on 26 January 1949.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ww2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Trees, IDPF, www.bevrijdingsmuseum.nl

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Nancy Hentschel (niece) - courtesy of Kathy McDermott