Ep 177: Christopher Kolakowski on Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.

School of War · Feb 14, 2025 · 52m

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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Times

• 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…