Materials contain a transcript of an interview wherein Victor L. Peterson describes his service in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1942-1946, including a summary of his induction, training, and transfer to the European Theater via North Africa. Describes his unit's participation in the Sicilian invasion, the Salerno invasion, and the landings in southern France. Discusses life on the front lines and details of his unit's responsibilities, as engineers, to clear mine fields and build bridges. Also discusses the important role his religion (LDS) played in giving him hope and strength throughout the war years. Contains a newspaper article citing Peterson's involvement in the liberation of Dachau and his horror at the inhumanity found therein. Includes his discharge papers. Photographs show him on the Rhine border and next to a downed Nazi airplane. Also shown is a pontoon bridge and the captured German 1st Army. Dated 1943-1945, 1993, 2001.