| Birth: | Jul. 18, 1886
Munfordville
Hart County
Kentucky, USA | | Death: | Jun. 18, 1945, Japan | 
United States Army General. Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1908. Promoted to Brigadier General in 1940, Major General in 1941 and Lieutenant General in 1943. In 1944 he organized the Tenth Army, which went into combat in Okinawa in 1945. He was killed by a Japanese artillery shell on June 18, 1945, three days before Okinawa was finally taken. He was first buried in the Tenth Army Cemetery on Okinawa before his remains were taken back to Kentucky to lie beside his father, who was Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General and Kentucky Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. (bio by: Garver Graver)
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Parents:
Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823 - 1914)
Spouse:
Adele Blanc Buckner (1893 - 1988)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for Simon Buckner | | | Burial:
Frankfort Cemetery
Frankfort
Franklin County
Kentucky, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Garver Graver
Record added: Nov 13, 2002
Find A Grave Memorial# 6925151 |
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