Wallace Robert Benson (December 3, 1916--October 6, 2008), known as Wally Benson, was during World War II an American prisoner of war in Italy. Conscripted into the United States Army in 1941, Benson was captured in 1943 by the Germans at Anzio, Italy. He was held prisoner until 1945, when he was freed by invading Russian troops. Wallace R. Benson obituary, ''Wyoming Tribune-Eagle'',
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Benson was one of four children born to Oscar and Jenny Benson in Eaton in Weld County  in northern Colorado. He was reared on a farm west of Greeley, also in Weld County. He graduated in 1935 from Greeley High School. On March 1, 1947, he married his wife Marion E. Benson (December 21, 1919 -- January 21, 2007), originally of Tacoma, Washington.Social Security Death Index:http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=BENSON&firstname=Marion&stat=a&start=61.

Benson graduated in 1952 from Colorado State University at Fort Collins, then known as Colorado A&M. He was employed in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the Wyoming Highway Department from 1954 until 1980, having headed the[photogrammetry department at the agency until the time of his retirement.

He and his wife were members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Cheyenne. They had relocated in 2006 to Sheridan in northeastern Wyoming. He was survived by a daughter, Mary Ann Lance, and by a son, Ross Benson. Wallace R. Benson obituary, ''Wyoming Tribune-Eagle'', http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2008/10/11/obituaries/01obit_10-11-08.txt</ref>