Don't know, maybe not related, but,
Shelby Othello
Buck, died before WWII started as a Canadian RAF pilot from West
Texas. As a student at the University of
Texas, prior to his departure for WWII service in the RAF,
Shelby Othello
Buck had been nominated for a
Rhodes scholarship while enrolled as a student in the University of
Texas in
Austin, TX.
Prior to World War II,
Shelby Othello
Buck was a prospective all
America football player for the University of
Texas Longhorns. Shelby Othello
Buck and his brother, John
Quinn Buck, each boxed and defeated Max
Baer during training bouts while US war efforts were delayed by political constraint. Buck was born in Crosby County, Crosbyton, TX.
See this reference for more info on
Shelby Othello
Buck of Crosbyton,
Texas, from a history of the
Texas Aggies:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Kav6qLQNhUkC&pg=PA222&a...Shelby Othello
Buck, from Crosbyton,
Texas, played football on the University of
Texas '
Longhorn' team, as a star-player, training, playing, and with the war in
England, flying; -- he enlisted in the
Royal Canadian Air Force. Shelby died in the European WWII Theater as a navigator on a B-17 bomber, prior to Japan's attack on Pearl
Harbor. He is buried in Cambridge
England. The early separation of the US from England's war didn’t allow US citizen combatants any direct ties to US support for individual efforts to stop
German aggressions.
With the earliest signs of Germany’s European aggression,
Shelby Othello
Buck convinced one of his UT football coaches and 5 other
Longhorn football players from UT to join him to enlist in the
Royal Canadian Air Force prior to Pearl
Harbor. During their flight training in Canada they played Canadian football in Ottawa, Canada -- the Roughriders! For more than 20 years, Shelby’s and his teammates have been enshrined with honors within the University of
Texas athletic department.
Shelby Othello Buck's family came to
Texas from the Jackson,
Mississippi area to the South Plains of
Texas (Buddy Holly's birthplace of rock and roll). Shelby had 6 brothers (four sisters). The boys were known as the 'Battling
Bucks' from Crosbyton and Morton, Texas; see
Lubbock Texas Avalanche Journal microfilm for source details. (
www.lubbockonline.com) More background information is available thru searches for Monroe D. Anderson Foundation
Houston,
Anderson and Clayton
Houston,
Fulbright Jaworski Law firm
Houston,
Salk Institute and John
Buck Company Foundation, Chicago.
Shelby's short life is historically notable for his heroic effort to stop
German Nazi aggression. Several medical and educational foundations now exist from his single sacrifice ... Shelby's family continues to fight poverty, teach children and provide health care for the common man.
Response to inquiry