Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. As commanding general of Alaska Defense Command, Buckner commanded American-Canadian forces in the Aleutian Islands campaign, including the Battle of Attu and the Kiska Expedition. Following that assignment, he was promoted to command the Tenth Army, which conducted the amphibious invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa in 1945. He was killed during the closing d
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American lieutenant general (1886–1945)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bolivar_Buckner_Jr.
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2003-09-07T01:17:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:01:59Z
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