Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., commander of the 6th Marine Division, and Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the Tenth Army, observe combat action during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Weeks after this photograph was taken, Buckner became the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire in World War II, struck by Japanese artillery on June 18, 1945, days before the battle's end. Project: 218500