A page from a wartime unit history booklet recounts the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the Ryukyu Islands, presided over by General Joseph W. Stilwell, alongside a photograph of Stilwell with General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. at the Tenth Army Command Post on Okinawa. Buckner, who assumed command during the Battle of Okinawa, was killed by enemy fire on 18 June 1945 while observing front-line troops, days before the island's final capture; Stilwell succeeded him as commander of the Tenth Army. Project: 218543