Word: buckners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Admiral Nimitz flew in to Okinawa he brought a copy of TIME in his pocket for Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner...
...yard battleline across southern Okinawa had not changed position in 13 days. Ahead lay a Japanese army 50,000 strong, entrenched on rows of spiny ridges, each one a maze of log bunkers, concrete pillboxes, caves and tunnels. Patiently the Tenth Army's Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. had waited until the Navy built up his supply dumps. Then he was ready...
...southern Okinawa the fighting was grim. By week's end the troops had gained from 800 to 1,400 yards, but had established no driving momentum. One village was won and lost again. "Buck" Buckner stuck to his formula-root them out "with blowtorch and corkscrew...
...Kamikaze planes attacked in groups of two to six. Most of them were shot out of the air before they got close to their targets. One fell into the sea only 200 yards from the amphibious operations flagship carrying Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner and Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner. In one day of flaming air action the Japs lost 118 planes...
...Buckner calls her husband Bolivar; sometimes to rhyme with Oliver, sometimes (with the original Spanish pronunciation) to rhyme with retriever...