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From: clements@cs.utexas.edu (Paul C. Clements)
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Subject: Re: High-ranking officers killed in action
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From: clements@cs.utexas.edu (Paul C. Clements)

>  1) Who where the highest ranking officers killed in action during each
>  of the United State's military conflicts?  What rank did they hold at
>  the time of death?

>From: ham@hpcc01.HP.COM (Bob Hamilton)
>  For WWII, I think it was Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner (USA), killed
>  during the invasion of Okinawa in 1945.

Also, on July 24, 1944, in one of the carpet bombing operations planned to
aid the D-day breakout, Allied bombs killed 111 Americans.    One of the
casualties was Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair, a senior member of the U. S. Army
staff in Washington who had joined a frontline batallion as an observer.     
Source:  "Liberation", Time-Life WWII series, p. 56.

P. C. Clements