(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Staff Sergeant Elmer F. Peterson (ASN: 32250909), United States Army, was awarded the Silver Star (Posthumously) for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with the 33d Infantry Division on or about 24 March 1945. During the early morning, the second platoon of Company G was assigned the duty of forming security for an engineer road construction unit approximately 3,000 yards west of Galiano, La Union Province, on the Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands. As Sergeant Peterson’s squad advanced ahead of the road construction unit, they ran into enemy machine gun and mortar fire from their right flank. In trying to determine the exact position from which the enemy was firing and with utter disregard for his own safety, he exposed himself in an effort to locate the enemy. By this courageous act he caused the enemy to shift their fire away from the bull dozers and trucks, but he himself was fatally wounded by enemy mortar fragments and died almost immediately.