The 1947 yearbook entry on Pete Baker was fairly common for a undergraduate of the day: two years football, one year basketball, and a member of the senior class committee. Indeed, the basketball career of Pete Baker was just 14 games, with a 20 point game versus Gallaudet as a season high.

But like many of The Greatest Generation, his was a story of heroism that never made it to the pages of a yearbook.

Baker, then 18, left Georgetown in the spring of 1943 to enter basic training, eventually finding himself in the headquarters of the 335th Infantry of the 84th Division at the Battle of the Bulge. Over 19,000 Americans died in the 40 day siege and another 26,000 were listed as missing or captured. According to a 2001 interview, Baker was captured behind German lines on Christmas Day, 1944 and spent the next four months as a prisoner of war.

A family member's account of Baker's ordeal was recorded at a web site in 2011 for genealogy studies: "He was rescued on April 2, 1945. Weighing about 65 lbs less and unable to hoist himself onto the rescuing vehicles, he was taken to France for recuperation and then made in back to Ft. Dix, NJ. He then visited his parents in Passaic. Then back to Ft. Dix. Eventually he made it back to Georgetown University where he graduated with a Masters in US Diplomatic History and worked in DC for a few years. He met my mother there, moved to her hometown in Puerto Rico and has been living there since their wedding April 28, 1956. He had four daughters and now has eight grandsons and one grand daughter."

Peter Baker died in 2017 at the age of 92.