Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.

Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.

Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ( SY-mən BOL-i-vər BUK-nər; July 18, 1886 – June 18, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II. He served in the Pacific Theater of Operations and commanded the defenses of Alaska early in the war. Following that assignment, he was promoted to command the Tenth Army, which conducted the amphibious assault on the Japanese island of Okinawa on April 1, 1945. He was killed during the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking United States military officer lost to enemy fire during World War II. He would remain the highest-ranking U.S. military member to be killed by a foreign armed action until the death of Lieutenant General Timothy Maude during the September 11 attacks.Buckner, Lesley J. McNair, Frank Maxwell Andrews, and Millard Harmon, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to be killed in World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has received more than 360,359 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. is the 721st most popular military personnel, the 2,274th most popular biography from United States and the 33rd most popular American Military Personnel.