Monday, April 18, 2022

Mint Juleps & General Buckner: Repost 2012

 

Lt. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
(foreground, holding camera),
photographed with Major General
Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., USMC,
on Okinawa.

 Mint Juleps & General Buckner

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 19, 2022 at 8:20 AM

    Buckner dicked around for months until a lucky artillery round saved the Americans by killing him. Then, the Marines to over the battle and the island was secured in a very short time.

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  2. John Robert Mallernee, KB3KWS, in Vernal, UtahApril 19, 2022 at 11:57 AM

    When I was a boy, we lived at Ashiya Air Force Base, Japan, where Daddy was a Master Sergeant in the United States Army, following his service in the Korean War.

    When we sailed back to San Franciso from Yokohama, it was aboard the USNA GENERAL SIMON B. BUCKNER (T-AP-123).

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