The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Sous-Lieutenant Albert E. Bacquet, French Army, for gallantry in action behind enemy lines from 4 August 1944 to 23 August 1944. Sous-Lieutenant Bacquet was parachuted into France in civilian clothes, together with a radio operator, to accomplish a special intelligence mission. He gathered and transmitted to London intelligence on troops movements, bombing results, antitank defenses, and areas mined by the retreating enemy. When he was requisitioned to work in an enemy hospital, he gained the confidence of the German attendants and succeeded in obtaining information of the number, conditions and nationality of the wounded evacuated from Caen and St. Lo. After the Germans evacuated Montargis and prior to the arrival of the U.S. Army, he organized a search of German offices and secured many valuable documents.