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Desmer Benson

9 May 1923 - 4 Sep 1970

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Desmer Benson

9 May 1923 - 4 Sep 1970

The burial record of Desmer Benson. Cemetery: Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Quadrant II, Location: San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States. Birth: 9 May 1923, Death: 4 Sep 1970.

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Desmer Benson

Born: 9 May 1923

Died: 4 Sep 1970

Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Quadrant II

1520 Harry Wurzbach Road

San Antonio, Bexar, Texas

United States

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Department of Veterans Affairs
Cemetery: FT. SAM HOUSTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Plot: SECTION W SITE 1434
Website: http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/ftsamhouston.asp
Address: 1520 HARRY WURZBACH ROAD SAN ANTONIO, TX 78209
Phone: (210) 820-3891
VA ID: 3089228

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Desmer Benson was born on 9 May 1923

Desmer Benson was 16 years old when World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.

Desmer Benson was 21 years old when World War II: The Allied invasion of Normandy—codenamed Operation Overlord—begins with the execution of Operation Neptune (commonly referred to as D-Day), the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945). The Allies promoted the alliance as a means to control German, Japanese and Italian aggression.

Desmer Benson was 34 years old when Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for dominance in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II, aided by captured German missile technology and personnel from the Aggregat program. The technological superiority required for such dominance was seen as necessary for national security, and symbolic of ideological superiority. The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, uncrewed space probes of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.

Desmer Benson was 41 years old when John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One as the 36th President of the United States. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. As a member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate prior to becoming president.

Desmer Benson died on 4 Sep 1970 at the age of 47

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