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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.

1886 - 1945

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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ( SY-mən BOL-i-vər BUK-nər; 18 July 1886 – 18 June 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. As commanding general of Alaska Defense Command, Buckner commanded American-Canadian forces in the Aleutian Islands campaign, including the Battle of Attu and the Kiska Expedition. Following that assignment, he was promoted to command the Tenth Army, which conducted the amphibious invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa in 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. is the 749th most popular military personnel (up from 951st in 2019), the 2,535th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,727th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 749 out of 2,058. Before him are Andriy Melnyk, Roustam Raza, Grigory Kulik, Lei Feng, Takeo Kurita, and Julian, Count of Ceuta. After him are Hans Hermann von Katte, Max Immelmann, Süleyman Pasha, Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Ma Dai, and Carmine Crocco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 73. Before him are Sessue Hayakawa, Georg Stumme, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Nobutake Kondō, Walter H. Schottky, and Joe Masseria. After him are Franz Josef Popp, Olaf Stapledon, Taimur bin Feisal, Nikolay Gumilyov, Hiroshi Ōshima, and Tarsila do Amaral. Among people deceased in 1945, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 127. Before him are Le Pétomane, Rudolf Lange, Hajime Sugiyama, Seiichi Itō, Leonid Pasternak, and Werner Ostendorff. After him are André Tardieu, Paul Pelliot, Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, Wolfgang Lüth, and Julius Dorpmüller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 2,535 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph Losey (1909), David Strathairn (1949), Mandy Patinkin (1952), Johnston McCulley (1883), Steven Soderbergh (1963), and Justin Francis Rigali (1935). After him are Eric Carr (1950), Melvyn Douglas (1901), James Remar (1953), Lucian Pulvermacher (1918), Rosanna Arquette (1959), and Jack Vance (1916).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 44. Before him are Raymond A. Spruance (1886), John Pope (1822), Abner Doubleday (1819), Hugh S. Johnson (1882), Mark W. Clark (1896), and Husband E. Kimmel (1882). After him are David Farragut (1801), John Sullivan (1740), Paul Revere (1735), Doc Holliday (1851), Henry H. Arnold (1886), and Harold Rainsford Stark (1880).

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