World War II Honoree

Gorman Orville Peterson

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Timber Lake, South Dakota

Honored By

Ms. Lillie May Peterson

Relationship

Wife

Served from October 1942 to February 1946 at the Mariana Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona and the Holloman Air Force Base on B-29 aircraft at Alamogordo, New Mexico. Occupation service in Japan at Tachikawa Air Force Base near Yokohama, Japan. Died of heart attack on December 31, 1987 and interred in the Black Hills National Cemetery near his birthplace, Sturgis, South Dakota.