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Did anybody mention Union Major General Reynolds who was killed by a sharpshooter at Gettysburg?
I mentioned him early on in the the thread as one of the Federal corps commanders killed in the War of the Rebellion. But as a corps commander he didn't rank with McPherson who was killed commanding the Army of the Tennessee at Atlanta.
Am I correct in assuming it was US Army Gen. Simon Bolivar Bucker during the Battle of Okinawa? I can't think of any others except from a few Civil War generals on both sides ex. Clebourne at Franklin, Reynolds at Gettysburg, etc.
How about US Navy admirals? Surely we had to have lost some flag rank officers in WWII besides Bucker.
A cousin of mine was severely wounded by the same shell that killed Buckner on Okinawa. He lost a lung as a result.
My Dad was also under Buckner's command, but that was in the 1943 Aleutian Campaign.
Lieutenant General Timothy Joseph Maude, USA (November 18, 1947 – September 11, 2001) was the highest ranking military officer killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and the most senior U.S. army officer killed by enemy action since Simon B. Buckner in 1945.[1] He was serving as the U.S. Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel and was at a meeting when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west side of The Pentagon. His offices had just days before been moved to the most recently renovated section of the Pentagon.
RADM Isaac Campbell “Ike” Kidd was killed on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the attack on Pearl Harbor – the first US flag officer loss in WWII.
Brig.Gen James Dalton II killed May 1945 in Belete Pass [now Dalton Pass] by a sniper. Commander of my dad's outfit [25th Inf Div]. My dad said he was he best damn general he'd ever had.
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