Alan BUCKLEY
HQ Battalion
V Corps


THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE SIR




Alan Buckley participating in a wreath laying ceremony at the "16th Armored Division" monument in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Here he is talking with George Patton Waters, grandson of General George S. Patton, Commanding General of the 3rd Army.

Alan Buckley celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the end of World War II riding in the "Convoy of Remembrance" in Pilsen

Alan Buckley served in Europe as a master sergeant with the V Corps, HQ Battalion.

After Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941, the V corps deployed the first American soldiers to the European Theater of Operations (January 1942). That initial deployment was known as the U.S. Army Northern Ireland Force or MAGNET. Later, soldiers of the V Corps would participate in almost all major battles fought in Europe, such as, the D-Day landing, Normandy Breakout, liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge. After the Bulge V Corps would go on to race through Germany, making contact with the Red Army at Torgau. Finally, the war ended for V Corps in Czechoslovakia, after the liberation of Pilsen, in May 1945.