"Pete" Aviation Chief Radioman Robert James Peterson - Colorado
join 18 years - in Navy 7 years - always in aviation

Awarded NAVY CROSS - Sept. 15, 1942 - Citation - 
in Dec. 7th attack on KANEOHE, Hawaii - 

"[I] was one of the first to man a machine gun on construction stand on a ramp down by the planes - so many couldn't count them it was too fast to count - shoot holes in the gas tanks which stream out - I thot [sic] they were layin' a gas attack. Put out a fire on a burning PBY with CO2 extinguisher - operated machine all thru [sic] first attack lasting about one hour and twenty minutes - during second raid about half hour. Four loaders were wounded on our gun including John Finn aviation chief ordnanceman who was given Congressional Medal of Honor." 

Present station - top turret gunner on a Liberators, also second in charge of radio gang of the squadron. Been in raids on Tulagi and other actions South Pacific.