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Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.

(1886—1945)


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(1886–1945) general, born in Munfordville, Kentucky, the son of Confederate general Simon Bolivar Buckner and the highest-ranking American general killed in World War II. In World War I, Buckner was ...

Subjects: Warfare and Defence.

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