(Right) Lt. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. on a hilltop observation post at Itoman on southern Okinawa
Buckner is wearing an unmarked helmet. This was the last photograph of the general taken before he was mortally wounded by Japanese artillery shell and died in a nearby aid station. In the background is a a pair of binoculars on a tripod with several officers standing nearby. Credit: U.S. Army Date: June 18, 1945
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