Herman W. Peters

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Herman W. Peters (33925045), Private First Class [then Private], U.S. Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Company K, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. Under fire from five hostile machine guns and two 20-mm. flak guns located 300 to 500 yards away, Private First Class Peters crawled 50 yards the morning of 26 March 1945, near Lampertheim, Germany, to aid a wounded rifleman. Grazed twice by bullets which ripped through his jacket and seared his leg, he reached the casualty, carried him 25 yards to safety and applied a tourniquet to a ruptured artery, undoubtedly saving the rifleman’s life. Later Private First Class Peters made a second mercy mission, going 40 yards on his stomach to reach another wounded man, whom he assisted to a position of safety.