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 | Petros (Peter) Loizides Died in the service of our country
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| About Petros (Peter): | Stars and Stripes, the army services newspaper began calling him "Two Gun Pete" because he packed a .45 caliber pistol and a machine gun. But in early 1945, a telegram arrived at his home. His sister Katherine Loizides Limperis age 7 had to read to her mother who could not read English. It said, "Two Gun Pete" had been killed in Germany on January 3, 1945. He was 21 years old. This was the citation award letter which he posthumously receive. "Peter Loizides, Sergeant, Infantry, Company K, 179th Infantry Regiment, for extraordinary heroism in action on 3 January 1945, near Wingen, France. During a strong enemy attack, one of Sergeant Loizides' machine gunners was wounded and the gun silenced. Sergeant Loizides moved forward to man the gun himself and, though knocked to the ground twice by intense enemy fire and seriously wounded each time, he succeeded in reaching the gun and delivered accurate and continuous fire which held off the attackers and silenced one enemy machine gun. At this point his own weapon jammed. Sergeant Loizides, although suffering from severe wounds, attempted to eliminate the stoppage but was killed while so engaged. His accurate and surprising fire, from a gun thought to be silenced, inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and materially assisted in the successful defense of his company's sector." He is buried in the Lorraine American Cemetery in St. Avold, France. Plot B, Row 26, grave 37 |
| Additional information: | ID: 32793347 Buried at: Lorraine American Cemetery Location: St. Avold (Moselle), France Plot: B Row: 26 Grave: 37 Find A Grave Memorial# 56657720 |
