Diary, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., 1 Apr 1945, Diary 1945 ... Lewis Sorley, Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 22–23. the ...
It took 72 days, an appalling number of American lives, and the live of the highest ranking American officer in World War II, General Simon Bolivar Buckner. Virtually all of the 100,000 Japanese ...