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Simon Bolivar „The Bull“ Buckner, Junior war ein General der US Army und diente am pazifischen Kriegsschauplatz des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Er gilt neben Lesley J. McNair, der am 25. Juli 1944 in der Normandie durch Friendly Fire starb, als der ranghöchste US-amerikanische Offizier, der bei Kampfhandlungen in diesem Krieg ums Leben ...
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ( / ˈsaɪmən ˈbɒlɪvər ˈbʌknər / SY-mən BOL-i-vər BUK-nər; July 18, 1886 – June 18, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. was a U.S. Army general in World War II who climaxed his career of more than 41 years by leading the successful invasion of the Japanese-held Ryukyu Islands in the Pacific Ocean (1945). The only son of the Confederate Civil War general of the same name, Buckner was.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Simon Bolivar Buckner arrived in Anchorage aboard the S.S. Aleutian on July 22, 1940 as a colonel in command of the Alaska Defense Force and charged with the overall defense of Alaska.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. was born on 18 July 1886 in Munfordville, Hart County, KY. His father was Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr., who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson and was Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1887-1891.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, (* 1. April 1823 in Munfordville, Hart County, Kentucky; † 8. Januar 1914 in Kentucky, Kentucky) war Offizier des US-Heeres, Generalleutnant des konföderierten Heeres im Sezessionskrieg und Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Kentucky.
His son Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. would later serve in the U.S. Army and be killed at the Battle of Okinawa, making him the highest-ranking American to have been killed by enemy fire during World War II.
