Peter Tomich

US Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1893–1941)

Petar Herceg 'Tonić' (later anglicized as Peter Tomich; June 3, 1893 – December 7, 1941) was a United States Navy sailor of Herzegovinian Croat descent who received the United States military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.

Tomich was an ethnic Croat from Herzegovina born as Petar Herceg (family nickname 'Tonić') in Prolog near Ljubuški, Austro Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He immigrated to the United States in 1913, and joined the US Army in 1917.

Tomich served in the US Army during World War I, and enlisted in the US Navy in 1919, where he initially served on the destroyer Litchfield.

For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, and extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. Although realizing that the ship was capsizing, as a result of enemy bombing and torpedoing, Tomich remained at his post in the engineering plant of the U. S. S. Utah, until he saw that all boilers were secured and all fireroom personnel had left their stations, and by so doing lost his own life."

The destroyer escort Tomich, 1943–1974, was named in honor of Chief Watertender Tomich. The United States Navy Senior Enlisted Academy in Newport, RI is named Tomich Hall in honor of Chief Watertender Tomich. The Steam Propulsion Training Facility at Service School Command Great Lakes is named in honor of Chief Watertender Tomich. The U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Headquarters Conference Room in Washington, D. C., is named the Peter Tomich Conference Center.