Magnor A. "Pete" Peterson
T/sgt. #19050521

Boot Camp: March Field; assigned to 19th Bomb Group 93 Bomb Squadron.
Assigned to Albuquerque, New Mexico Air Base.
Assigned and shipped to Fort Slatsenburg (Ed. Clark Field at Fort Stotsenberg, Luzon) PI, 1941

Went to Bataan on Christmas Day 1941.
Ordered to surrender at Mariveles Air Field on April 07, 1942.

Death March to Camp O'Donnell
Next Camp Cabanatuan
Work Camp at Bontoc - Camp John Hays.
Work detail Corregidor and Bilibid Prison.
Shipped on The Taga Maru to Fuji Japan.
Prison camp at Funatsu - Sosaka area.
Forced labor Lead Mine also a smelter in Mountain near Osaka

Liberated 1945 sent to Philippines to testify at war crimes - witnessed for trial.

Left the service and returned to USAF as a civilian.
Worked as Jet Mechanic F-102 at Portland Air Force base.   Retired 1968.

Belongs to American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor and Wake-Northwest.