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Bombs from a Consolidated Liberator of No. 231 Group explode on a section of railway track running through monsoon-flooded countryside, 17 June 1945, during one of a series of low-level daylight attacks on the Bangkok-Singapore railway south of Chumphon, Thailand.

 
Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., commanding general, Tenth U.S. Army at Okinawa. He was killed on this day in 1945 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. He would remain the highest ranking military member to be killed by a foreign armed action until the death of Lieutenant General Timothy Maude during the September 11 attacks in 2001.

 
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