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. ▪️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 Homeward boundFollow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod, and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcastFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack