Howard E. Rogers

Lieutenant-General Simon Bolivar Buckner (1886-1945) right, commander of U.S. Tenth Army on Okinawa. - On June 18 he was at a forward observation post when he was hit in the chest by a fragment of shrapnel thrown up by a Japanese shell explosion. He died shortly afterwards. He was buried in Okinawa, but four years after the war his body was transported to the family grave in Kentucky. 

Lt. Gen. Buckner

George S Patton´s 3rd army in Plzeň (Pilsen), Czechoslovakia, May 1945.