Ep 177: Christopher Kolakowski on Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.

Christopher Kolakowski, director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and editor of Tenth Army Commander: The World War II Diary of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., joins the show to discuss the most senior U.S. officer killed by enemy action in WWII, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. 

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    •      01:44 Introduction

    •      02:15 In the shadows

    •     03:53 Fathers and sons 

    •      06:28 Childhood 

    •      09:30 West Point Commandant of Cadets   

    •      16:03 Alaska ’41

    •      20:18 The Japanese threat 

    •      24:20 10th Army   

    •      29:03 Notes for an unwritten memoir

    •      31:02 Operation Causeway

    •      35:47 Okinawa

    •      41:52 Attrition

    •      43:50 Another Anzio?

    •      50:57 Homeward bound

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