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Charles Allen Buchanan 1904

Charles Allen Buchanan was born on October 28, 1904 at IN-46, in Brookville, Dearborn County, Indiana United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Allen Buchanan .

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    Charles Allen Buchanan Rear Admiral Charles Allen Buchanan, 96, a retired rear admiral who commanded a destroyer division and squadron during the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns of World War II and retired in 1964 as commander of the naval district in Hawaii, died of respiratory failure April 3 at Ginger Cove Health Center in Annapolis. He was operations officer and assistant chief of staff for an amphibious task force that landed in Sicily and Salerno, Southern Italy, and in the Marshall Islands and Guam during World War II. After the war, he became an aide to James Forrestal, the Navy secretary who was the first secretary of defense. Adm. Buchanan was an operations officer in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, commanded the USS Worcester and was a commandant at the U.S. Naval Academy in the early 1950s. He commanded a destroyer squadron in the Far East and was commander of the naval base at Newport, R.I. In Hawaii, he coordinated completion of the USS Arizona-Pearl Harbor Memorial. Adm. Buchanan was a native of Brookville, Ind., and a graduate of the Naval Academy. His honors included the Navy Cross, two awards of the Legion of Merit and a Bronze Star. He was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, Naval Academy Alumni Association and Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Potomac. His wife, Kathleen Thompson Buchanan, died in 1992. Survivors include four children, Mary Gale Buchanan of Annapolis, Charles Allen Buchanan Jr. of Lisbon, John Goodwin Buchanan of Virginia Beach and Kathleen Buchanan-Lee of Potomac; four grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
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In 1904, in the year that Charles Allen Buchanan was born, the first underground line of the New York City subway system opened. London's underground system was opened in 1863 and Boston opened one in 1897, but New York quickly became the largest system in the U.S. More than 100,000 people paid 5 cents to ride under Manhattan that first day.
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In 1939, on the 1st of September, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On September 17th, the Soviet Union invaded Poland as well. Poland expected help from France and the United Kingdom, since they had a pact with both. But no help came. By October 6th, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany held full control of the previously Polish lands. Eventually, the invasion of Poland lead to World War II.
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