Pvt. Herbert Carl Benson

Parents: Axel Benson & Florence Nelson-Benson

Siblings: 1 brother

Hometown: 

    - 7814 West Cresset Drive - Elmwood Park, Illinois

Education:

    - John Mills Grade School - Elmwood Park

    - Proviso Township High School

         Graduating Class: 1944

Inducted:

    - 8 November 1944

        - U. S. Army

 - Serial Number: 36923257

Training: 

    - Camp Blending, Florida

    - Fort Benning, Georgia

Units: paratrooper

Died: 11 June 1945

    - killed by falling tree

Buried: Elmwood Cemetery - River Grove, Illinois

    - 15 June 1945

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