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	Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His father was Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
		Buckner was the highest ranking American to die during the war.
		Fort Buckner, an Army sub-post of the Marine Corps' Camp Foster on Okinawa, is named after him.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Bolivar_Buckner_Jr (250 words)

	P-38 Lightning Online: Aleutian Islands
		General Buckner recognized the threat posed by the Japanese, and realized that it was only a matter of time before they target their aggression towards the American forces in the Pacific.
		Buckner was due to receive additional resources because Washington was realizing the possible problems that the Japanese would be able to pose to the mainland.
		Buckner's prediction of attacks was correct, but the Aleutian Islands were never the main focus of an enemy invasion.
	p-38online.com /alaska.html (845 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
		In 1887, Buckner ran for Governor of Kentucky as a Democrat and was elected.
		Buckner surrendered Fort Donelson to Ulysses S. Grant after his superiors fled.
		He was later exchanged, and joined Braxton Bragg's 1862 invasion of Kentucky.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Simon_Bolivar_Buckner_Sr (167 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Buckner Simon Bolivar Jr
		Buckner, Simon Bolivar (1823-1914), American army officer, born in Hart County, Kentucky, and educated at the U.S. Military Academy.
		On April 1 the U.S. Tenth Army, composed of four army and four marine divisions under General Simon B. Buckner, Jr., landed on Okinawa, 500 km (310...
		Buckner successfully defended the Aleutian Islands against Japanese invasion during...
	encarta.msn.com /Buckner_Simon_Bolivar_Jr.html (142 words)

	Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell (Texas a & M University Military History Series)
		Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
		Buckner is the more restrained, a Southern gentleman whose career was average and whose diary entries are interspersed with letters to his wife.
		Lieutenant General Buckner was a straight laced, clockwork-precision type who preferred to use artillery and tanks to reduce entrenched positions, while General Stilwell was a short-tempered outsider who disdained set-piece battles in favor of maneuver.
	www.textkit.com /0_1585442941.html (606 words)

	World War II Book Review
		On June 18, 1945, Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the Tenth Army on Okinawa, visited a forward observation post occupied by elements of the 1st Marine Division.
		Buckner often wrote detailed accounts of activities and progress in the course of the campaign, as well as private remarks that reveal typical prejudices of a Southern-born American of the time, but that in public the general tended to keep to himself.
		Meanwhile, Buckner’s place in command of the Tenth Army was taken up by General Joseph Stilwell, whose tactics were as swift and thrusting as Buckner’s had been conventional and by-the-book.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/reviews/wwiireview0805-3 (795 words)

	Simon Bolivar Buckner
		Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr - American General during World War II, son of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
		Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr - Confederate general during the Civil War.
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/s/si/simon_bolivar_buckner.html (94 words)

	Photos
		Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., commanding officer of the Tenth Army, advocated retaining possession of the island after the war under some type of special legal status.
		Stilwell was a harsh critic of Buckner during an inspection trip, and discussed with Gen. of the Army Douglas MacArthur removing him from command during the invasion of Japan.
		Ironically, Buckner was with Marines when he died in a Japanese artillery barrage as the battle neared an end, and Stilwell replaced him in command.
	faculty.tamu-commerce.edu /sarantakes/Photos.html (2050 words)

	pg_308.asp
		In December 1862 Buckner assumed command of the Department of the Gulf, but in May 1863, he was shifted to the Department of East Tennessee, which in August became part of Bragg’s Department of Tennessee.
		General Edmund Kirby Smith secured Buckner’s promotion to lieutenant general and gave him command of the District of West Louisiana; on 19 April 1865 he was assigned the enlarged District of Arkansas.
		Buckner became Kirby Smith’s chief of staff on 9 May 1865, and it was he who surrendered the TransMississippi Department on 26 May.
	ebooks.abc-clio.com /ebooks/1576073823/pg_308.asp (831 words)

	Simon Bolivar Buckner
		Simon Bolivar Buckner, a future Confederate Lieutenant General during the American Civil War, was born on April, 1823, near Mundfordville, Kentucky.
		His son, Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner, Jr., the highest ranking officer killed in action (Okinawa) during WWII, is buried next to him in Frankfort, Kentucky.
		Buckner left the Army in 1855 to enter the business world, managing some family property in Chicago, Illinois.
	www.il.ngb.army.mil /History/famous/buckner.htm (240 words)

	Buckner Page
		It covers an extensive group of families in Virginia, the one that produced the prominent Kentucky family to which Simon Bolivar BUCKNER, Governor of KY and Confederate general belonged.
		The fact that Buckner is far more common in the US arises mostly from a form of the "founder" effect which is observed in population genetics.
		I can't really account for the apparent Buckner population burst of the last 25 years, but it may be due to a biasing of that particular 1990 study towards ethnic minorities.
	www.buckbd.com /genea/buckner.html (1787 words)

	Buckner goes to Alaska. Terrain, weather and poor communication inhibit airbase development.
		Simon Buckner soon realized one of the many paradoxes of his new command responsibilities.
		The Army commander was General Simon Buckner, just promoted from Colonel.
		Buckner, who might have turned out to be a regiments and battalions and divisions kind of Army officer, saw the wisdom of the airplane.
	www.daileyint.com /flying/flywar7.htm (3173 words)

	Nakagusuku Bay - TheBestLinks.com - Buckner Bay, Japan, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., ...
		Buckner Bay, Nakagusuku Bay, Japan, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
		American soldiers nicknamed the bay Buckner Bay, after General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
		Nakagusuku Bay is a bay off the southern coast of Okinawa in Japan.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Buckner_Bay.html (101 words)

	> Battle of Okinawa at abcworld.net
		The American land campaign was controlled by the Tenth Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
		At the very end of the campaign, Buckner was killed by ricocheting shell fragments, becoming one of the most senior US casualties in the entire war.
		The army had two corps under its command, III Amphibious Corps, consisting of 1st and 6th Marine Divisions, with 2nd Marine Division as an afloat reserve, and XXIV Corps, consisting of the 7th, 27th, 77th and 96th Infantry Divisions.
	www.abcworld.net /Battle_of_Okinawa.html (1012 words)

	World Wars I and II
		General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., graduated from West Point in 1908 and was commissioned in the Infantry.
		In 1945 General Buckner was given command of the newly-formed Tenth U.S. Army and with it the task of invading and neutralizing Okinawa.
		George S. Patton, Jr., was an intense student of war and one of the leading practitioners of war for all time.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/ftlvn/ww2.asp (5799 words)

	noooooooo.com :: potent potables : buckner julep recipe
		From a letter written by Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
		The story goes that Buckner was the Com at West Point in 1935 when FDR and General MacArthur were guests (and FDR the graduation speaker) at the graduation ceremony.
		Conner, the Supe, had heard that the President "liked his liquor red" and implored the native Kentuckian Buckner to concoct a batch of Mint Juleps for the cocktail reception.
	www.noooooooo.com /potent_potables/buckner.htm (744 words)

	The Setting
		With the advance intelligence that the President "liked his liquor red," Connor consulted with the born and bred Kentuckian who lived next door, my father, Lieutenant Colonel Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
		Buckner's eloquent response often has been used by a Kentucky distillery in responding to questions about the legendary concoction, but the Connor letter prompting it, to my knowledge, has never before been published.
		The Supe and the Com decided that mint juleps would be served at the reception and that Buckner would oversee their preparation.
	www.thebucknerhome.com /julep/setting.html (361 words)

	Simon Bolivar Buckner -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The bolivar was adopted as Venezuela's monetary unit in 1879, prior to which independent Venezuela used three separate currencies: the escudo, the peso, and the venezolano.
		U.S. pathologist and bacteriologist Simon Flexner was born in Louisville, Ky. He was director of laboratories for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1903 to 1935.
		Known chiefly for her romantic ballads sung in a melancholy alto voice, U.S. singer and songwriter Carly Simon had her greatest success in the early 1970s with a series of soft-rock singles and albums with emotional, highly personal themes.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9017898?tocId=9017898 (722 words)

	SCV Albert Sidney Johnston Camp #67 Houston, Texas
		This Gen. Bucker was the son of Confederate Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
		Your letter requesting my formula for mixing mint juleps leaves me in the same position in which Captain Barber found himself when asked how he was able to carve the image of an elephant from a block of wood.
	www.scvcamp67.org /julep.htm (549 words)

	Media Center
		Buckner, the great-grandson of Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner, will be tracing his ancestor’s footsteps at the 2002 National Reenactment, hosted at the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.
		Buckner also joined General Braxton Bragg in his 1862 campaign for Kentucky, which brought Buckner to the Battle of Perryville.
		Jean will reenact Buckner’s brief to brigade commanders prior to the battle, and he will introduce the Buckner descendants in attendance to the audience.
	www.perryville.net /mediacenter.html (5585 words)

	USS Kawishiwi AO-146
		Buckner Bay was named after Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.,
	www.usskawishiwi.org /Cruises/Okinawa/BucknerBay.html (71 words)

	Homer News Online Veterans Day ceremonies to be at new memorial 11/04/04
		11 at the Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
		Buckner was the commanding general of the Alaska Defense Command during World War II and died in the Battle of Okinawa in June 1945 the highest-ranking American killed in World War II.
		It will be the first time Veterans Day ceremonies will be held at the American Legion Auxiliary and American Legion memorial, dedicated in December 2003.
	www.homernews.com /stories/110404/news_1104new03001.shtml (474 words)

	Dictionary simon
		Simon J Kissane/Pages to be rewritten or deleted
		, St Simon, Simon Zelotes, Simon the Zealot, Simon the Canaanite -- one of the twelve Apostles (first century)
		, Herb Simon, Herbert A. Simon, Herbert Aleddxander Simon -- United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (1916-2001)
	www.dictionarydefinition.net /simon.html (89 words)

	The Mint Julep
		The following is a copy of a letter from Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., USA [(VMI-1906, West Point-1908) killed on Okinawa June 18, 1945] to Major General William D. Connor, [Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point] dated March 30, 1937.
		was the son of General Simon Bolivar Buckner of the Confederate army who surrendered Fort Donelson to General Grant, thus giving Grant his nickname of "Unconditional Surrender" Grant.
		This letter clearly demonstrates the esteem in which a "Mint Julep" is held.
	www.civilwarhome.com /mintjulep.htm (728 words)

	BASTIN Family Birthdate Calculator Page
		Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., who were natives of Hart County, KY, which is where many BASTINs live!)
		The following birthdate calculator is courtesy of: Ben Buckner.
		Calculates birthdate from death date and age of death in day-month-year format.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Prairie/9714/birthdat.htm (76 words)

	simon bolivar buckner - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Buckner, Simon Bolivar : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Buckner
		Buckner, Simon Bolivar (1823-1914) — also known as Simon Buckner — of Kentucky.
		Buckner, George Washington (1855-1943) — also known as George W. Buckner — Born in
		General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/buckner.html (390 words)

	THE MINT JULEP
		(later Gen.) Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., the son of Gen. Simon Bolivar
	www.kmialumni.org /mint_julep.html (577 words)

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		– the son of the famous Kentucky Civil War Confederate General and Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner.
		Oldham County is named for a veteran of the Revolutionary War, Colonel William Oldham.
		The highest ranking officer killed in World War II was LT. GEN.
	www.kentuckyvets.com /17801.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (474 words)

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