KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Bill Buckner has quite the story to tell this Memorial Day, but it involves both pride and pain for the Kansas City man and his family. The 97-year-old Buckner loves to talk ...

I was privileged to meet and work with Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner during World War II. He came to the Aleutian Island Umnak, where I was stationed in 1943 and 1944. I was one of 27 civilians stationed ...

“Like myself, you are an infantry general long schooled and practised in infantry warfare,” wrote Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., to the Japanese commander on Okinawa. “You fully know that ...

To the average U.S. citizen, air and sea power are the weapons to be used to defeat Japan. Last week an infantryman gave a different opinion. Burly Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., head of ...