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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