Wilbur J. Peterkin
Colonel Wilbur J. Peterkin
415th Infantry Regiment , 104th Infantry Division - USAR | |
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| Battles/wars | China Offensive; China Defensive |
| Awards | American Defense Service Medal; Asiatic Pacific Service Medal with 2 Bronze Stars; Combat Infantrymans Badge |
| Other work | Taught bookkeeping and commercial law at Sumner High School, Sumner Washington, and at Franklin Pierce High School, Parkland (Tacoma), Washington |
China Burma India Theater, and an executive and commanding officer of the United States Army Observer Group, commonly known as the Dixie Mission. Prior to the war, Peterkin was a high school teacher in Sumner, Washington. Before commanding Dixie, Peterkin had spent almost two years in China.[1]
Peterkin went to school in
415th Infantry Regiment
, 104th Infantry Division (Reserve) from 1946โ1964, and was the commanding officer 1948โ1957.
Resources
- William P. Head, Yenan!: Colonel Wilbur Peterkin and the American Military Mission to the Chinese Communists, 1944โ1945 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Documentary Publications, 1987).
- Colonel W. J. Peterkin, Inside China 1943-1945: An Eyewitness Account of America's Mission in Yenan (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992).
- Carolle J. Carter, Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists 1944-1947 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1997).
- Obituary, Wilbur James Peterkin, Tacoma News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington, May 5, 1996
See also
- Dixie Mission
- China Burma India Theater
Notes
- ^ Carolle J. Carter, Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists, 1944 - 1947(Lexington, KY: U of Kentucky Press, 1997), 33.
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