사이먼 B. 버크너

소개

시몬 볼리바르 버크너 주니어(Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr, 1886년 7월 18일 ~ 1945년 6월 18일)는 미국 육군의 군인으로 태평양 전쟁 당시 알래스카를 방어하고 오키나와 전투에서 수륙 양용 공격을 펼쳤으나 일본군의 포격으로 전사하였다. 그의 사후 1954년 7월 19일 국회에서 4성 장군으로 승진을 통과시켰다.

Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. As commanding general of Alaska Defense Command, Buckner commanded American-Canadian forces in the Aleutian Islands campaign, including the Battle of Attu and the Kiska Expedition. Following that assignment, he was promoted to command the Tenth Army, which conducted the amphibious invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa in 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.