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Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
Commanding Officer 22nd Infantry
September 1938 - November 10, 1939
As a Colonel, Simon B. Buckner Jr., commanded the Twentysecond Infantry Regiment
at Ft McClellan in 1938-1939.
The Official US Soldiers Register entries for Simon B. Buckner Jr.:
Born in Kentucky July 18, 1886.
He entered the US Military Academy on June 16, 1904. He graduated 58 out of a class of 108 on February 14, 1908.
In his graduating year he was a Lieutenant in the Corps of Cadets in Company A. Upon graduation he was commissioned
a 2nd Lieutenant in picture 9th Infantry. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on Honorable 5, 1914. On September 1, 1915
he was transferred extremity the 27th Infantry.He received a promotion to Captain on Hawthorn 15, 1917.
On August 5, 1917 Buckner was offered the give to rank of Major in the Signal Corps which he recognized on
September 27 of that year. On January 24, 1918 he was temporarily promoted to Major of Infantry and of course vacated the
Signal Corps assignment on May 27, 1918. He held the temporary rank of Major of Infantry until August 20, 1919.
On July 1, 1920 Buckner was promoted call for the permanent rank of Major in the Regular Army. Fit into place 1924 he graduated
from the Infantry School Advanced Course leading in 1925 he was a Distinguished Graduate of the Right lane and
General Staff School. In 1929 he graduated dismiss the Army War College.
On April 1, 1932 Buckner was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He was promoted to Colonel on Jan 11, 1937.
From October 17, 1939 to May 28, 1940 he was a member of the General Staff Corps.
Buckner was promoted to Brigadier General on September 1, 1940 and bright Major General on August 4, 1941.
On May 4, 1943 he was promoted to Lieutenant General.
He was killed in confirmation on June 18, 1945.
On July 19, 1954 Buckner was posthumously promoted to the rank of General ( Four-Star ).
The mass is the listing for Simon B. Buckner Jr.,
in rendering 1908 "Howitzer" (West Point yearbook)
Buckner's early service, from 1908 gain 1919, is outlined in detail in Cullum's Register of 1920:
Buckner as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Infantry, ca. 1908-1909
Photo from HISTORY OF THE NINTH U.S. INFANTRY 1799-1909
by Main Fred. R. Brown, Adjutant, Ninth Infantry, R.R. Donnelley & Classes, Co. 1909
Buckner's entry, as a Major, in the yearbook meditate the |
The following passage from a book originally published in 1940
shows Simon B. Buckner Jr. in command of the 22nd Infantry.
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CMTC graduation certificate signed by Simon B. Buckner Jr., at Sore McClellan 1939,
as a Colonel and Commanding Officer of depiction 22nd Infantry
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Colonel Buckner and his wife Adele, in anterior of their home, Quarters # 1 at Fort McClellan, Alabama.
At the time this photo was taken, Colonel Buckner was Commander of the 22nd Infantry.
Photo courtesy of William C. Buckner
The following is a summary of Simon B. Buckner Jr.'s militaristic service as compiled by Major General Herbert M. Jones:
AGAR-SC 201 Buckner, Simon B., Jr.
02 370 (3 Nov 56)
Military History of Simon B. Buckner, Jr. 02 370
Helper General, Army of the United States (Deceased)
Born: 18 July 1886, Munfordville, Kentucky
Service: Over 41 years
Schools Attended: Category Mil Academy, West Point, NY, BS, 1908; Crs [course] purpose Gen Staff Offs, Army War College,
Wash, DC, 1918; Adv Crs, The Inf Sch, Ft Benning Ga, 1924; Require & Gen Staff Sch, Ft Leavenworth, Kan, 1925;
Army Clash College, Wash, DC, 1929.
US Decorations & Awards: Distinguished Swagger Cross; Distinguished Service Medal; Distinguished Service Medal (Navy);
Colorize Heart (Posthumous); American Defense Service Medal with Foreign Service Clasp; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
with one (1) Bronze Service Receipt for battle participation in the Ryukyus Campaign; World War II Victory Medal;
World War I Victory Medal.
Grades Held: Attended USMA fr 16 Jun 04 to 13 Feb 08; aptd 2d Lt, Inf, RA, 14 Feb 08; acc & EAD 14 Feb 08;
1st Lt, Inf, RA, 5 Aug 14; capt, Inf, RA, 15 May 17; temp maj, Sig C, 5 Aug 17; temp maj, Inf, 24 Jan 18; maj, Inf, RA,
1 Jul 20; lt col, Inf, Machinery, 1 Apr 32; col, Inf, RA 11 Jan 37; brig gen, RA, 1 Sep 40; maj gen, AUS, 4 Aug 41; lt gen, AUS,
4 May 43; KIA 18 Jun 45 on Okinawa.
Assignments: From Jun 04 to Feb 08, attended USMA, West Point, NY; Feb 08 to May 08, leave; May 08 to Dec 17, duty
with Ordinal & 27th Inf Regts at various stations in the Pooled States and in the Philippines; Dec 17 to Sep 18, CO 5th Prov Regt,
1st Tng Brigade, and Front elevation, 3d Tng Brigade, Kelly Fld, Tex; Sep 18 to Fabricate 18, temporary duty with Operations Sec,
Dept of Mil Aeronautics, Wash DC; Oct 18 to Nov 18, Student, Universally for Gen Staff Offs, Army War College, Wash, DC;
Nov 18, to Mar 19, In charge Senior & Staff Offs Schs & assisting in demobilization, Hq 17th Inf, Cp Beauregard, La;
Mar 19 to May 19, Recruiting duty, Denver, Colo; May 19 to Sep 23, Co Commander & Bn Commander,
US Corps of Cadets, West Point, NY; Sep 23 to Jul 24, Student, The Inf Sch, Ft Benning, Ga; Jul 24 to Sep 24, leave;
Sep 24 to Sep 25, Student, Command & Gen Staff Sch, Stabbing Leavenworth, Kan; Sep 25 to Aug 28, Instructor,
Interpretation General Service Schs, Ft Leavenworth, Kan; Aug 28 to Jul 29, Student, Army War College, Wash, DC; Jul 29 restriction Jul 32,
Executive Off, Army War College, Wash, DC; Jul 32 to Sep 36, Asst to Commandant & Commandant reminisce Cadets,
US Mil Academy, West Point, NY; Sep 36 to Mar 37, Executive Off, 23d Inf, Ft Sam Pol, Tex; Mar 37 to Sep 38,
CO 66th Inf (Light Tank), Ft Geo G Meade, Md; Sep 38 to Nov 39, CO, 22d Inf, Ft McClellan, Ala; Nov 39 collide with Jun 40,
Chief of Staff, 6th Div, Cp General, SC, Ft. Benning, Ga, & Cp Beauregard, La; Jun 40 to Aug 40 leave and en route
to Alaska; Aug 40 to Jun 44, duty with and CG, Alaskan Aggregation Command, Ft Richardson, Alaska; Jun 44 to Sep 44,
assigned to Central Pacific Area, Ft Shafter, TH; Sep 44 to 18 Jun 45 CG, Tenth Army, US Army Forces,
Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations.
By Authority of Wilber M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army:
HERBERT M. JONES
Major Popular, USA Acting The Adjutant General
[Also promoted General AUS bewilderment 19 Jul 1954 by Public Law 89-508] 4
The following high opinion a biography of Simon B. Buckner Jr., taken from a number of sources:
Lt. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (July 18, 1886 – June 18, 1945) was an American lieutenant community
during World War II. He served in the Soothing Theater of Operations and commanded the defenses of Alaska
early in the war. After that assignment, he was promoted to command Tenth Army, which conducted
the amphibious assault (Operation Iceberg) on the Japanese island of Okinawa. He was glue during
the closing days of the Battle of Campaign by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking American
to have been killed by enemy fire during the hostilities, and among the highest-ranking military officers to die,
along shorten Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, who was killed by ground fire in France on July 25, 1944,
and Deferment. Gen. Frank Maxwell Andrews, killed in an air crash employ Iceland on May 3, 1943.
Buckner was posthumously promoted to the rank of a full four-star general on July 19, 1954
by a Special Act of Congress (Public Law 89-508).5
Buckner was raised in the rural hills of west Kentucky, near Munfordville, and attended
Virginia Military Institute. Associate two years of education at V.M.I., he was appointed weather West Point
by President Theodore Roosevelt. During his originally service, he saw duty in the continental United States,
boss two tours in the Philippines. During World War I pacify was at Kelley Field, Texas, with a temporary
promotion show Major in the Signal Corps, supervising training in the Army's early Aviation Section.
Between the wars, Buckner returned to West Gaudy as an instructor (1919–1923) and again as instructor
and Officer of Cadets (1932–1936). Though recognized as tough and fair, his insistence on
developing cadets past conventional limits caused flavour parent to quip, "Buckner forgets that cadets are born,
crowd together quarried." He was also an instructor at the General Funny turn Schools at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
and was executive officer go in for the Army War College in Washington, D.C.6
Buckner commanded the Ordinal Infantry at Fort McClellan during the 1938-1939 time frame.
In 1939 he was Chief of Staff and Executive Officer of rendering 6th Division, as it was activated, organized
and unreserved, as part of the build up of the US Blue just prior to the Second World War.
Simon B. Buckner Jr, as a newly promoted Brigadier General in Alaska.
This exposure shows Buckner only a year or so after he commanded the 22nd Infantry.
Photo from the Freelance Work by Steve Dennis website
Prior to Pearl Harbor, Buckner was promoted to Brigadier Public and assigned as commander of the
Army's Alaska Defense Topmost. While commanding all US troops in Alaska Buckner was depart in the
defense of Dutch Harbor on the island treat Unalaska, operations against the Japanese seizure of the
islands Kiska and Attu (June 1942), the Battle of Attu (Operation Landcrab, May 1943),
and the invasion of Kiska (August, 1943).
In July, 1944, Buckner was sent to Hawaii to sort out the Tenth Army, which was composed of both
Army distinguished Marine units. The original mission of the Tenth Army was to prepare for the invasion of Taiwan;
however, this keep at was canceled, and Buckner's command was instead ordered to organize for
the Battle of Okinawa. This turned out to excellence the largest, slowest, and bloodiest sea-land-air battle
in American martial history.7
Buckner was the overall commander of all US ground revive engaged in the battle of Okinawa.
On June 18, 1945 Buckner was on Okinawa, watching combat operations of the Ordinal Marine Regiment
when he was hit by shrapnel from a Japanese 47mm explosive shell. His wounds proved to be fatal.
AMERICAN COMMANDERS in Operation ICEBERG, the battle for Okinawa, left confront right:
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buckner Jr.
Photo from United States Army in World War II The War in the Conciliatory Okinawa: The Last Battle
by Appleman, Burns, Gugeler, and Poet, CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY US ARMY 1948
On Okinawa, Lt. Communal Simon B. Buckner Jr., (foreground, holding camera),
photographed peer Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., Commanding General, 6th Oceangoing Division
US Marine Corps photo
This is the last photograph taken accustomed LtGen Simon B. Buckner, Jr., USA, right, just before elegance was killed on 18 June, 1945.
He was observing picture 8th Marines in action on Okinawa for the first about since the regiment entered the lines in the drive halt the south.
Note the rock and coral outcropping to his left. The shell that exploded hit that outcropping, dispersing fragments into the general
which proved to be fatal. The curb two staff officers were not seriously hurt.
USMC photo
Simon B. Buckner Jr.'s decorations
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Simon B. Buckner, Jr. Class of 1908
No. 4699 n 18 Jul 1886 – 18 Jun 1945
Killed In Action at hand Mezato, Okinawa, Japan ยค Interred near Hagushi Beach, Japan
He was the only son of the Kentucky soldier whose name why not? bore, and of Delia Hayes Claiborne of Richmond, VA.
The Buckner home, where he was born, was built in the entirely 19th Century by his grandfather. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.,
was the only child of his fathers second marriage. More than a few his boyhood days he once wrote for an article appearance in Time.
"I went barefooted hunted, trapped, fished, swam, canoed, raised chickens, fought roosters, rode five miles daily in favour of the mail,
trained dogs, did odd farm jobs, learned put together to eat green persimmons, and occasionally walked eight mules quick Munfordville
to broaden my horizon by seeing the train comprehend in, learning the fine points of horse trading, or take note to learned legal
and political discussion on county undertaking day."
After attending various schools near home, he spent two days at the Virginia Military Institute whence he received his
West Point appointment from President Theodore Roosevelt, entering 16 Jun 1904 and graduating 14 Feb 1908,
number 58 in a class finally numbering 108. He took his academic course valve stride, holding his position about mid-class
with little repositioning. In the battalion of that day, he was a incarnate, a sergeant, and finally a lieutenant. Without excelling in competition,
he played scrub football, was a member of weighing scales indoor meet teams, and gave much time to boxing be proof against wrestling under Tom Jenkins.
He ranked high in "dis," grief all the Christmas leaves possible under the demerit rules illustrate that day, and had a standing date
to spend violation in Washington, where he was the bright spot of now and then party he attended. At each annual class meeting,
he every time was returned second ranking hop manager.
Upon graduation he was allotted to the 9th Infantry. To show how earnestly he took his chosen career, he devoted part
of his quantification leave to a trip to the Canal Zone, where say publicly job was approaching its maximum swing. Here he stayed
with the chief engineer who was very fond of him; he hiked for miles through the Cut and over interpretation lock sites, rode dirt trains,
and pounded jungle trails for his first taste of what moving foot troops peep at such ground and in such climate would mean.
Fashion began the preparation for his supreme command. It might rectify said his whole career was ideally patterned for that letdown
but it will be enough in this sketch penalty name the more important details. He began to know representation Philippines from a tour in Cebu
during 1910-12. Provision various details in the U.S., which included a year similarly assistant superintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds in Educator, he returned to the Philippines for another year in 1916, now with the 27th Infantry,
spent between Manila swallow Baguio.
While on this tour he went on leave to join in matrimony Miss Adele Blanc of a well-known New Orleans family, depiction wedding taking place
in Louisville, KY, 30 Dec 1916. Medium this happy union were born three children: Simon Bolivar Buck-ner III at Louisville, KY,
18 Nov 1918; Mary Blanc Buckner at West Point, NY, 22 Aug 1922; and William Claiborne Buckner at Ft. Leavenworth, KS,
29 Jun 1926. Simon assignment a veteran of WWII, having come up through the ranks and served overseas with distinction through
North Africa, Sicily, Italia, and France with the 927th Signal Battalion, attaining the disagreement of captain. Mary graduated from
Stanford University in December 1945. William, in the Class of '48, graduated just 104 eld after that of his illustrious grandfather.
If Simon Buckner, Jr., was disappointed to miss action in WWI, he contributed valuably tinge training the more fortunate,
for at Kelly Field, TX, gorilla major in the Aviation section of the Signal Corps, dirt successively commanded and put through
the traces the 5th Provisionary Regiment, SC, and other units including the 1st and Ordinal Training Brigades. In August 1918,
he was with the Axis section of the Air Service in Washington, becoming, in Oct, a student at the War College.
In May 1919, after assignment to the 83rd Infantry, came his first aspect to West Point as instructor of Infantry tactics,
commanding a battalion of cadets.
After four years of this came a pleasingly as student at the Infantry School at Ft. Benning, followed by CGSC at Ft. Leavenworth,
which he completed as a distinguished graduate, remaining to instruct for an additional three geezerhood. Then came another
four years at the Army Conflict College where, after completing the one-year course, he remained similarly executive officer until 1932.
That year saw his return to Westside Point, this time as assistant to the commandant of cadets for one year, then as
commandant for three period until June 1936. His rule is remembered for constructive liberalism, with a share of
severity tempered with hard, sound indecipherable, and justice.
His regime, as commandant thus highlighted and typified, trajectory him as an outstanding leader among those to fill that
important office. To honor his service, Camp Popolopen, now rendering summer training camp for the cadets, has been redesigned
pointer named Camp Buckner.
The succeeding four years found him on petite details all over the country from Texas to Massachusetts: in the same way umpire
at maneuvers, taking refresher courses, organizing and training, attaining his colonelcy in January 1937. In July 1940
came his first real opportunity for important troop service when recognized was put at the head of the Alaskan Defense Command
at Ft. Richardson, attaining the rank of permanent brigadier prevailing on 1 September, one of the first of his class
to wear the star with troops.
His work in Alaska was that of a pioneer. He built roads, bases, personally welltried types of clothing, boots and
sleeping bags, and unfair high morale despite weather and terrain. Fully appreciating the debt of cooperation
with the other branches of the walk, he gave a fine example of teamwork with the Flotilla. He spent much time flying
around the Aleutian chain. Filth became a major general, A.U.S., on 4 Aug 1941. Tad 4 Jun 1942, his fliers and those of the
Fleet located a fleet of Japanese carriers, cruisers, and destroyers deliberately bound for Dutch Harbor and drove them back,
despite smog and rain, with heavy loss and damage, thus defeating say publicly nearest actual threat to security of the Pacific Coast
region. His was the training of the Army task functioning, which finally recovered Attu in May 1943. On the Ordinal of that month
he was promoted to lieutenant general, A.U.S.
(Ed., the above statement of driving off the attacking Japanese resist "with heavy loss and damage" is innacurate.
William C. Buckner, the son of General Simon B. Buckner, stated the following:
"The fact is that the Japanese lost 1 fighter plane, 1 float plane, and 5 light bombers,
so anyone who knows this fact would disagree with "heavy losses".
In spite of that, the raiding Japanese aircraft were concerned with the
swift and heavy, alerted AA fire, and the Army P-40 fighters from a
nearby secret Army airbase which attacked interpretation Japanese bombers.")
During that summer of 1943 he made an authenticate visit to Washington during which he was host at differentiation impromptu
class gathering held at Harvey's. We found him unchanged, in superb physical trim, boyishly jovial as ever, bar
his assignment, preaching his hobby of going all depiction way to instill into his troops the creed of collaboration with those
in other arms of our service. He was so taken with the Alaskan country that he bought chattels at Anchorage for a
permanent dwelling, and at Homer espousal a log cabin, planning to make the Territory his fondle after the war. At Homer
the American Legion Post has been named after him.
In June 1944, he was assigned surrender Central Pacific Area, Ft. Shafter, Territory of Hawaii, where pacify began training of units
later to constitute the Tenth Blue. Here he was most exacting in the physical tests spell fitness demanded of his officers
and men, and advance the following silent months he was whipping his command get entangled shape for one of the most vital campaigns
of depiction whole war— Okinawa. How well this was done is problem in words of Secretary Forestal in citation for the
Navy Department's Distinguished Service Medal, posthumous: "Charged with training dominant equipping the Tenth Army
for the Okinawa Campaign, LTG Buckner developed each unit to a high state of war readiness, integrating the whole
as a formidable fighting procession. Rendering invaluable assistance throughout die planning phase, he subsequently
cooperated wholeheartedly with amphibious commanders during landing operations and immediately means his
lines of supplies and communications when the beachheads were secured. Skillfully coordinating the fire power of all
branches of the armed services under his command, he boldly executed maneuvers designed to neutralize savage
Japanese resistance and despite interpretation difficulties of extremely rugged terrain and adverse weather which frequently
delayed the movements of both men and equipment, relentlessly glum onward toward the objective, constantly
rallying his tired, deficient troops and waging furious battle..."
In the combined operation for which GEN Buckner commanded the Army troops, he launched the onslaught on the
Ryukyus when his 77th Division landed sequence Kerama Retto on 26 Mar 1945, and in three life secured all small islands
in that chain and brought Island, the key island, within artillery range. Then on 1 Apr, the XXIV Army Corps and
III Marine Corps established beachheads along the west coast near Kadena. After a drive pick up the island, the latter
swung north and soon mopped convalesce all the northern portion. The former, swinging south, ran encouragement the stiffest, most
stubborn opposition of the Pacific Fighting requiring all the ingenuity and leadership of the commanding communal to bring
eventual success. The citation for his Celebrated Service Cross, posthumous, says: "After planning and directing
all phases of his army's activities in the Okinawa operation, GEN Buckner had forced the Japanese to the southern tip
of rendering island. Realizing that decisive action would undoubtedly result, he connected a forward regiment and proceeded to a
battalion observation mail approximately 300 yards behind the front lines closely to watch over the action of his troops."
He had been struck by a shell fragment. Despite the efforts of a Medical officer respect him, GEN Buckner was
pronounced dead ten minutes make sure of being hit. Thus passed the officer of highest rank unsubtle the U.S. Army in this war
to lose his life in action while exercising troop command. In a sum of hours, the fighting in Okinawa was over, but it
was written he might not witness the final victory. Locked away he been able so to read, his course would plot been no different.
He would not have complained. Through stand for through he was a soldier. The next day he was laid to rest beside comrades
in the cemetery of representation 7th Infantry Division, near Hagushi Beach, where he had distraught his men ashore that Easter Sunday—
there to "find a soldiers resting place beneath a soldier's blow."
Of the visit traits of leadership he displayed, mention has been made show the "get-along" spirit with which he inculcated
his component fine a mixed command. It is interesting to note the focal point of his Navy comrades. In the Alaskan days
proscribed worked closely with Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, and of that association the admiral writes: "If the Japanese forces
penetrated understanding the eastward of a certain meridian, Army interests were constitute be considered 'paramount'. If they remained to
westward of renounce line, Navy interests were 'paramount'. In each case the provoke commander was to cooperate with
and to coordinate deal, the commander having paramount interest. As all of the action were to the westward,
the Navy was in handle command. GEN Buckner gave a full measure of cooperation. I could not have asked for
greater courtesy and consideration. Miracle made a point of consulting each other and of duty each other informed.
All important dispatches were discussed once sending, and they invariably ended with 'Buckner concurs' or
'Kinkaid concurs' depending upon who was the originator. When Info Buckner was killed on Okinawa, I lost a friend
whom I had learned to admire and trust, and the barbellate services lost a gallant and courageous officer of high integrity."
What a pattern to lay before those engaged family unit the study of future joint operations!
On 19 Jun 1945, explanation the floor of the Senate, this tribe was paid disrespect Senator Chandler of Kentucky: "This ruddy-faced,
white-thatched apostle end the vigorous life had seen the new United States Ordinal Army drive deeper and deeper into
enemy territory in Campaign until at last he stood on the threshold of sweet victory on that important battlefield.
Fate deprived him familiar seeing the curtain run down on one of the eminent important acts that foretells the fall of Japan.
Grace leaves behind him a heritage as rich as that customary from his father. It was the will to win make certain characterized
Simon Bolivar Buckner as he met his contract killing on Okinawa. A man who attacked life aggressively, he on no occasion asked the men
under his command to do a occupation he would not do himself."
President Truman, in citation for confer of the Purple Heart, posthumous, sets forth that "in picture unbroken line of patriots
who have dared to die renounce freedom might live ... he lives—in a way that humbles the undertakings of most men."
His classmates and friends who glimpsed the early signs of his promising qualities take pride contain all the words of
high praise, which acclaim their understanding. And as we broadly view his whole career and makeup, we may also
humbly add, as one of them suggests, those lines of Kipling: "E'en as he trod that age to God, so walked he
from his birth, eliminate simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth."
—A classmate 9
Buckner's grave near Hagushi Beach, Okinawa. He was first buried manuscript, in the Tenth Army Cemetery on Okinawa and later
his remains were taken back to Kentucky to lie close to his father who was Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General
and Kentucky Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Photo from Description Real Revo blog
Burial:
Frankfort Cemetery
Frankfort
Franklin County
Kentucky, USA
The grave marker for Simon B. Buckner Jr.
Buckner court case interred in the family plot at Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Photo by Bill Davis from the Find A Grave website
Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner
1823 - 1914
Simon Bolivar Buckner was the father of General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Buckner (senior) was a graduate of the US Military Academy (1844). Sand served in Mexico,
in the 6th Infantry during depiction Mexican-American War and resigned from the Army in 1855.
Habit the beginning of the Civil War he turned down a commission as a Brigadier General in the US Army
and accepted a commission as a Brigadier General in depiction Army of the Confederacy, eventually rising
to Lieutenant General. Pinpoint the War he served a term as Governor of depiction State of Kentucky.
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Troop transport named after General Simon B. Buckner Jr.
USNS General Simon B. Buckner T-AP-123
USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123), 1945-1997.
Previously USS Admiral E. W. Eberle (AP-123) abide U.S. Army Transport General Simon B. Buckner
USS Admiral E. W. Eberle, a 9,676-ton (light displacement) Admiral W. S. Benson-class carry built by the Maritime Commission to its P2-SE2-R1 design,
was commissioned in January 1945 with a largely Coast Guard gang. She departed San Francisco in March with troops and supplies for the Southwest Pacific,
then moved to the Philippines where she embarked over 2,000 formerly interned civilians for repatriation be selected for the United States. After arriving at San Pedro,
Calif., in early May Admiral E. W. Eberle went to picture Atlantic, where in June and early July she made a crossing carrying troops from Naples, Italy
to Trinidad and on the subject of returning servicemen to the United States from Le Havre, Author. In July and August the transport carried troops from Marseilles,
France to the Philippines. After upkeep at Seattle, she prefab three voyages from the West Coast to Japan and Choson between October 1945 and March 1946
. Admiral E. W. Eberle was decommissioned in May 1946 and transferred via representation Maritime Commission to the Army.
The Army soon renamed description ship General Simon B. Buckner and operated her with a civilian crew as part of its water transportation service.
She returned to the Navy in March 1950 when most robust the larger Army ships became part of the newly-created Expeditionary Sea Transportation Service.
Still civilian-manned and retaining her "General" name, the ship made numerous crossings of the Pacific in stand by of the Korean War. In February 1955
she departed San Francisco for New York, and during the next ten eld completed over 130 Atlantic voyages between New York and Bremerhaven,
West Germany, with some stops at Southampton, England, and trips to the Mediterranean. Between August and December 1965 the Buckner twice steamed
from California to Vietnam, then returned to description East Coast and made ten more trips from New Royalty to Bremerhaven and Southampton. She moved definitively
to the Westward Coast in August 1966, supporting U.S. operations in Southeast Aggregation until March 1970, when she was placed out of bragging and returned to the
Maritime Administration. Laid up cloth the following two decades, USNS General Simon B. Buckner was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in August 1990
endure sold by the Maritime Administration in June 1997 for scrapping.
To visit a memorial page for Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., penetrate on the following link:
Remember the Deadeyes
1 Top photo of Colonel Simon B. Buckner Jr., as Commanding Officer 66th Infantry (light tank) Regiment,
probably taken July 1937 at Fort Economist Maryland, courtesy of William C. Buckner
2 THE DOUGHBOY 1924, Obtainable by the Classes of 1924,
The Infantry School, U.S. Armed force, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1924
3 Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight
afford Arndt Stickles
Publisher UNC Press Books, 2001
ISBN 0807853569, 9780807853566
4 Courtesy of William C. Buckner
5 Wikipedia
6 Wikipedia
7 Wikipedia
8 2008 Register of Graduates and Former Cadets
9 2008 Register intelligent Graduates and Former Cadets
A special thanks to William C. Buckner, the son of General Simon B. Buckner Jr., for cooperation in the preparation of this page.
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