Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1886-1945
Person
Dates
- Usage: 1886 - 1945
Biographical Note
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II. He served in the Pacific Theater of Operations and commanded the defenses of Alaska early in the war. Following that assignment, he was promoted to command the Tenth Army, which conducted the amphibious assault on the Japanese island of Okinawa on April 1, 1945. He was killed during the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa by enemy artillery fire.
Citation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bolivar_Buckner_Jr.Found in 1 Collection or Record:
World War II Pacific Theater Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-48
Contents of the Collection
The World War II Pacific Theater Photographs contains 227 black-and-white prints and 18 negatives taken by United States Army and Navy photographers documenting U.S. military activities in the Pacific Theater in 1945. The images seem to be military publicity shots and the majority of the photographs appear to have been taken in the Marianas Islands.Due to the relatively small size of the collection, materials were grouped by subject and sorted alphabetically. The bulk of the...
Dates:
1944-1946
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives