Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American lieutenant general during World War II
Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1886
Place of Birth: Munfordville, Kentucky, United States
Date of Death: 18-Jun-1945
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
- Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
- ( SY-m?n BOL-i-v?r BUK-n?r; 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 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.
- Buckner and McNair were posthumously promoted to the rank of four-star general on July 19, 1954, by a Special Act of Congress (Public Law 83-508).
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