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Personal info

Full name
PETERSON, Kenneth Stanton
Date of birth
15 November 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Columbia Heights, Anoka County, Minnesota
Hometown
Hennepin County, Minnesota

Military service

Service number
37552541
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
11 April 1945
Place of death
Leipzig, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Carl A. Peterson (father)
Frieda W. (Boettcher) Peterson (mother)
Russell E. Peterson (brother)

More information

Pfc Kenneth S. Peterson graduated from Central High School.

He was sent overseas in October 1944.

Pfc Peterson was taken prisonerin the vicinity of Schlausenbach, Germany on 16 December 1944.

He died in the POW Hospital in Wahren-Leipzig.

Investigation on 14 July 1948 revealed that according to cemetery records he was interred in the East Cemetery in Leipzig-Pegau on 17 April 1945 and disinterred by an American Search and Recovery Team on 29 June 1945. Attempts to associate unknowns, recovered from the location, were all negative.

His brother Russell also served overseas.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, IDPF of George J. Bingham, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.newspapers.com - The Minneapolis Star

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - The Minneapolis Star, www.ancestry.com - Central High School Yearbook 1941