Career
Peters joined the United States Army from his birth city of Cranston, Rhode Island in 1943, and by March 24, 1945 was serving as a private in Company G, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division. On that day, his unit was dropped by parachute across the Rhine river near Fluren, Germany. Immediately upon landing, Peters single-handedly attacked a German machine gun emplacement which was firing on his group.
He succeeded in destroying the position despite being mortally wounded during his advance.
Peters was buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery, in Margraten, the Netherlands. The position of the small unit seemed hopeless with men struggling to free themselves of their parachutes in a hail of bullets that cut them off from their nearby equipment bundles, when By his intrepidity and supreme sacrifice.