134th Infantry Regiment Website
"All Hell Can't Stop Us"
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134th Infantry Regiment Website"All Hell Can't Stop Us" |
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Floyd William Peterson, son of Clifford Alfred and Susie Bell (Lenox) Peterson, was born January 19, 1919 in Cherry County Nebraska. He served as a truck driver in the Second Platoon, Anti-Tank Company, 134th Infantry Regiment and landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy on July 6, 1944. He was killed while driving a Jeep up a road in the Gremecey Forest northeast of Nancy, France when he was attacked by a German patrol and hit by an incendiary grenade. Pfc Floyd W Peterson died September 30, 1944 and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Valentine, Nebraska.