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OCR Page 1 of 11The President of the United # States takes pride in
awarding the MEDAL of HONOR posthumously to
02/21/467
PRIVATE GEORGE J. PETERS,
CO. G, 507th PARACHUTE INFANTRY
UNITED STATES ARMY
357-7
for service as set forth in the following
CITATION:
"Private Peters, a platoon radio operator with Company G,
507th Parachute Infantry, made a descent into Germany near Fluren,
east of the Rhine, on 24 March 1945. With ten others, he landed
in a field about seventy-five yards from a German machine gun
supported by riflemen and was immediately pinned down by heavy,
direct fire. The position of the small unit seemed hopeless with
men struggling to free themselves of their parachutes in a hail of
bullets that cut them off from their nearby equipment bundles, when
Private Peters stood up without orders and began a one-man charge
against the hostile emplacement armed only with a rifle and
grenades. His singlehanded assault immediately drew the enemy
fire awayfrom his comrades. He had run halfway to his objective,
pitting rifle fire against that of the machine gun, when he was struck
and knocked to the ground by a burst. Heroically, he regained his
feet and struggled onward. Once more he was torn by bullets, and
this time he was unable to rise. With gallant devotion to his self-
imposed mission, he crawled directly into the fire that had mortally
wounded him, until close enough to hurl grenades which knocked
out the machine gun, killed two of its operators and drove protecting
riflemen from their positions into the safety of a wood. By his
intrepidity and supreme sacrifice Private Peters saved the lives
of many of his fellow soldiers and made it possible for them to
reach their equipment, organize and seize their first objective."
HARRY S. truman
Copy for The White House
JAN 28 1946
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