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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: High-ranking Officers killed in Action
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Date: 15 Oct 90 03:39:51 GMT
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)

In article <1990Oct2.234822.22777@cbnews.att.com>, emery@linus.mitre.org (David Emery) writes:
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> 
> From: emery@linus.mitre.org (David Emery)
> 
> >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.

   LTG Buckner was killed by a mortar round exploding near him while over
   looking what is now Buckner Bay, Okinawa - the same round wounded my
   father-in-law, an infantry captain.

> At least 1 division commander (2-star) was killed in VietNam when his
> helicopter was shot down.

   Major General Keith Ware, 1st Infantry Division.

   mts