Note: Other sources list year of birth as 1920, not 1924. He died in the South Pacific.
THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948, PAGE TWO
PFC. ELDON BUCKNER
Funeral services for Pfc. Eldon E. Buckner, Jr. will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Gill Funeral Home, Wichita. He was a graduate of the Roosevelt Junior High school and Manhattan High school and attended Kansas State College before entering the service in 1942. He was killed, Dec. 13, 1944, on the USS Nashville. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Buckner and a brother, Bill, all of Kansas City, Mo.
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US Naval Account:
On 13 December, USS Nashville was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck.[5] Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 in (127 mm) guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire.[4]
Personal account by eyewitness sailor :
By Robert Shafer
April 2008 Naval History Magazine Volume 22, Number 2
The next day, the Nashville pulled into Leyte Gulf. The dead were taken off the ship and put on a big barge that headed for the cemetery, and the physically and emotionally wounded were ferried to a hospital ship. The official casualty count was 133 dead and 190 wounded. These shipmates will long be remembered.
Based in this, Eldon's body is likely buried in the Philippines in one of the cemeteries on the shore of Leyte Gulf, Philippines.
THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948, PAGE TWO
PFC. ELDON BUCKNER
Funeral services for Pfc. Eldon E. Buckner, Jr. will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Gill Funeral Home, Wichita. He was a graduate of the Roosevelt Junior High school and Manhattan High school and attended Kansas State College before entering the service in 1942. He was killed, Dec. 13, 1944, on the USS Nashville. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Buckner and a brother, Bill, all of Kansas City, Mo.
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US Naval Account:
On 13 December, USS Nashville was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck.[5] Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 in (127 mm) guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire.[4]
Personal account by eyewitness sailor :
By Robert Shafer
April 2008 Naval History Magazine Volume 22, Number 2
The next day, the Nashville pulled into Leyte Gulf. The dead were taken off the ship and put on a big barge that headed for the cemetery, and the physically and emotionally wounded were ferried to a hospital ship. The official casualty count was 133 dead and 190 wounded. These shipmates will long be remembered.
Based in this, Eldon's body is likely buried in the Philippines in one of the cemeteries on the shore of Leyte Gulf, Philippines.
Note: Other sources list year of birth as 1920, not 1924. He died in the South Pacific.
THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948, PAGE TWO
PFC. ELDON BUCKNER
Funeral services for Pfc. Eldon E. Buckner, Jr. will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Gill Funeral Home, Wichita. He was a graduate of the Roosevelt Junior High school and Manhattan High school and attended Kansas State College before entering the service in 1942. He was killed, Dec. 13, 1944, on the USS Nashville. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Buckner and a brother, Bill, all of Kansas City, Mo.
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US Naval Account:
On 13 December, USS Nashville was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck.[5] Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 in (127 mm) guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire.[4]
Personal account by eyewitness sailor :
By Robert Shafer
April 2008 Naval History Magazine Volume 22, Number 2
The next day, the Nashville pulled into Leyte Gulf. The dead were taken off the ship and put on a big barge that headed for the cemetery, and the physically and emotionally wounded were ferried to a hospital ship. The official casualty count was 133 dead and 190 wounded. These shipmates will long be remembered.
Based in this, Eldon's body is likely buried in the Philippines in one of the cemeteries on the shore of Leyte Gulf, Philippines.
THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948, PAGE TWO
PFC. ELDON BUCKNER
Funeral services for Pfc. Eldon E. Buckner, Jr. will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Gill Funeral Home, Wichita. He was a graduate of the Roosevelt Junior High school and Manhattan High school and attended Kansas State College before entering the service in 1942. He was killed, Dec. 13, 1944, on the USS Nashville. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Buckner and a brother, Bill, all of Kansas City, Mo.
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US Naval Account:
On 13 December, USS Nashville was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck.[5] Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 in (127 mm) guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire.[4]
Personal account by eyewitness sailor :
By Robert Shafer
April 2008 Naval History Magazine Volume 22, Number 2
The next day, the Nashville pulled into Leyte Gulf. The dead were taken off the ship and put on a big barge that headed for the cemetery, and the physically and emotionally wounded were ferried to a hospital ship. The official casualty count was 133 dead and 190 wounded. These shipmates will long be remembered.
Based in this, Eldon's body is likely buried in the Philippines in one of the cemeteries on the shore of Leyte Gulf, Philippines.
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