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Mary Thompson

13 Aug 1921 - 21 Sep 1963

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Mary Thompson

13 Aug 1921 - 21 Sep 1963

The burial record of Mary Thompson. Cemetery: Golden Gate National Cemetery, Location: San Bruno, San Mateo, California, United States. Birth: 13 Aug 1921, Death: 21 Sep 1963.

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Mary Thompson

Born: 13 Aug 1921

Died: 21 Sep 1963

Golden Gate National Cemetery

1300 Sneath Ln

San Bruno, San Mateo, California

United States

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Department of Veterans Affairs
Cemetery: GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL CEMETERY
Plot: SECTION 2E SITE 2388
Website: http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/goldengate.asp
Address: 1300 SNEATH LANE SAN BRUNO, CA 94066
Phone: (650) 589-7737
VA ID: 540263
Notes: WIFE OF THOMPSON, ROBERT

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Mary Thompson was born on 13 Aug 1921

Mary Thompson was 18 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.

Mary Thompson was 24 years old when World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers. Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. The city's name, 長崎, means "long cape" in Japanese. Nagasaki became a centre of colonial Portuguese and Dutch influence in the 16th through 19th centuries, and the Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region have been recognized and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Part of Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War.

Mary Thompson was 36 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.

Mary Thompson died on 21 Sep 1963 at the age of 42

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