Corporal Robert Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Peterson of Linn Grove, can’t say number 13 is an unlucky one for him. Peterson, who is one of two paratroopers from Clay county, made his 13th jump on July 13 from plane 13. He was the 13th man out and landed near highway 13.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, August 12, 1943
Robert Laird Peterson was born Mar. 24, 1922 to Oscar P. and Emily Georgiana Gerow Peterson. He died Aug. 29, 1981 and is buried in Buena Vista Memorial Park Cemetery, Storm Lake, IA.
Capt. Peterson served with the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com
