Peterson, Oscar Vernon, CWT

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rate
Chief Chief Water Tender

Last Primary NEC
WT-0000-Water Tender

Last Rating/NEC Group
Water Tender

Primary Unit
1941-1942, WT-0000, USS Neosho (AO-23)

Service Years
1920 - 1942

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Wisconsin

Year of Birth
1899

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Casualty Info

Home Town Prentice, WI	Last Address 3743 Highland Ave San Diego, CA

Casualty Date May 13, 1942
Cause KIA-Died of Wounds	Reason Burns
Location Pacific Ocean	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Richfield Cemetery - Richfield, Idaho	Wall/Plot Coordinates Block 9w Lot 3 (memorial marker)

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Tributes from Members


	Hero is remembered 68 Years later posted by Hill, Andy, LCDR 824

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Neosho AO-23

Peterson's Medal of Honor is presented to family 68 years later


Date Apr 3, 2010
Last Updated: May 27, 2018

Comments
After Peterson's death, his widow and children moved from California to Richfield, Idaho. His wife Lola died in 1991, and his son Donald in 2008. On April 3, 2010, sixty-eight years after the Battle of the Coral Sea, a Medal of Honor presentation ceremony was held to amend for the one Peterson's wife never received. Rear Admiral James A. Symonds presented the medal and a forty-eight star U.S. flag to Peterson's surviving son, Fred.

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