Purple Heart
Victory - World War II, Army Good Conduct
American Campaign, European-African Middle Eastern Campaign
Sixth Armored Patch

PFC Roy E. Peterson was inducted 8/24/42 at Fort Crook, NE. He was a crew member on a M7 105 Howitzer drawn near Bristol, England. He entered France July 24, 1944 as a member of 6th Armored Division, 231st Armored Field Artillery Battalion, Battery B, Section 6, ‘Bill’s Missouri Boys’. The unit was in the line for 221 consecutive days before being pulled from action on March 4, 1945 for their first rest. The Purple Heart was received from a shell burst near Thionville, France. His war came to an end after traveling 2,690 miles, firing 4,108 rounds into enemy positions and making contact with the Russian forces at a bridge-head on the Mulde River. Outside of preserving freedom for the world, major accomplishments were the freeing of an Allied POW camp and Buchenwald on April 11, 1945.
Battle stars that the 6th Armored received. Normandy (6 Jun 44 – 24 July 44), Northern France (25 July 44 – 14 Sept 44), Ardennes (16 Dec 44 – 25 Jan 45), Rhineland (15 Sept 44 – 21 March 45), and Central Europe (22 March 45 – 11 May 45).