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Cpl Peter S. Snoich graduated form Coaldale High School and Kulztown State teachers College. He was math teacher in Nether Providence High School.

He enlisted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 5 June 1942.

He died of wounds in a hospital in the Netherlands received in action in the vicinity of Baesweiler, Germany. The exact location of the hospital is not known.

He served in the North African, the Sicilian, Italian and French campaigns.

A comrade of Cpl Snoich recalled what happened: "We would be attacking Flossdorf in the morning. Late in the day, before we began to establish our defense perimeter for the night, I had my machine gun set up. My crew and I had secured our position. Shortly thereafter, along came my good friend Pete Snoich with his machine gun and two of his men. Pete was to set up his gun farther along the proposed perimeter. He stopped and we conferred as to where it would be best for them to place the gun so as not to be in our line of fire should something erupt during the night. After a few minutes of discussion, Pete and his men moved on.

At approximately the spot Pete was about to set up the gun, a shell flew in and exploded. I watched him go down and I ran to him. His men escaped, but a piece of shrapnel tore a hole in the back of Pete's helmet that was large enough to stick a flashlight in. I was the last man to speak to him."