Duane Beeson place of death Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Post war
He returned to Boise in June 1945 and made every effort to get reassigned to the Pacific theatre, but the Pacific War soon ended. Beeson was reassigned to Sarasota, Florida, where he met his future wife, Tracy Waters. They married in Baltimore in January 1946. Soon afterward Beeson became violently ill. Doctors diagnosed a brain tumor and Beeson was flown to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. for an operation. He died before the operation could be performed. He was just 25 years old. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.In November 1993, the Duane W. Beeson Terminal Building was named in his honor.
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