World War II
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Fallen
Fallen
County:
Ward
Date of Loss:
Branch of Service:
Marines
Rank:
Private First Class
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company B
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:
First Battalion
Regiment / Group / Brigade:
Seventh Marine Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:
First Marine Division
Listed on/in the:
Register of North Dakota Veterans World War II 1941-1945 and Korean Conflict 1950-1953, published 1968
Major Battle/Theatre:
Asiatic Pacific Theater
Circumstances:
Killed in action in Okinawa.
Biography:
Bernard Guy Peterson was born in Makoti, Ward County, North Dakota on July 4, 1923, to Nels Peterson and Bessie Bivins Peterson. He entered the United States Marine Corps in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 27, 1944. Private First Class Peterson served Asiatic Pacific Theater and was killed in action on May 15, 1945, in Okinawa, Japan. He is buried in Grave 925, Section M, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl Cemetery, Grave 925, Section M, Honolulu, Hawaii along with Hope Lutheran Cemetery, Makoti, Ward County, North Dakota.
Sources: Ancestry/Find a Grave