Well quite a few people die in the end result of the suicide crash... More in ROTJ I suppose.
I think I do recall general Veers death in a script now coming to think of it but it was after he speaks to Vader on the Hologram "You may start your landing" and then gets blown up by the snow speeder collision. and the whole targeting the shield generator was not present at that time.
Any way it must have been a big debate on the scenes inclusion that I think we can be sure of and ultimately It was chopped out the film.
But the deleted scene shows it with the targeting the shield generator shot so they must have changed it... Can't really remember and I am a bit tired right now.