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Peterson, Oscar Vernon, CWT.
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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)
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.