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

 Soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 338th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army examining a German machine-gun nest, consisting of two machine guns MG42, on the slopes  of 'hill 926' , Monte Altutstso in Italy. Time taken: 09/17/1944 

