Nakagusuku Bay
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Nakagusuku Bay is a bay on the southern coast of Okinawa Island on the Pacific Ocean in Japan. The bay covers 220 square kilometres and ranges between 10 metres to 15 metres deep. The bay is surrounde
Nakagusuku Bay
USS Ocelot (IX-110) aground in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, November 1945. Her stern was cut off when USS Nestor (ARB-6), visible to the right, crashed into her during the storm.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. 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 A
Nakagusuku Bay
…Okinawa. Nakagusuku Bay became an important U.S. anchorage. United States Army troops referred to it as "Buckner Bay", in memory of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of U.S. land forces in the campaign, who was killed on 18 June. Naval Base Buckner Bay was built by Naval Construction Battalion 4 on the…
Buckner as a brigadier general, 1940
Buckner (sitting, 3rd right) with Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid (sitting, 2nd left) during the Aleutian Islands Campaign
Buckner on Okinawa, 1945
Buckner (foreground, holding camera), photographed with Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., USMC, on Okinawa