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Personal info

Full name
PETERS, Victor
Date of birth
1917
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Pennsylvania
Hometown
Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York

Military service

Service number
42077461
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
317th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 December 1944
Place of death
St. Avold, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 42 21

Immediate family

Members
Simon Peters (father)
Marcella Peters (mother)
Aldona Peters (sister)
Theodore Peters (brother)
Simon Peters (brother)
Nellie Peters (sister)

More information

Pfc attended high school for four years and was a salesman before he enlisted at Camp Upton, Yaphank, New York on 16 March 1944.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record, www.80thdivision.com, https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/3946/
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