The Highest Ranking US Officer Killed In Action During World War II

A true fighting general

Buckner, right (Public domain)

It is unsurprising that the United States’ highest ranking officer to fall by enemy fire in World War II was killed in the Pacific. The War In the Pacific was violence distilled down to its purest form and stuffed into impossibly small spaces. The tiny islands of the Pacific were far from the sweeping plains of…