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	World Wars I and II
		Jacob L. Devers, who is best remembered for his command of the 6th Army Group in Europe during World War II, graduated from the US Military Academy in 1909.
		Eichelberger soon became a Lieutenant General and General MacArthur ordered "Bob, I want you to take Buna, or not come back alive." LTG Eichelberger defeated the Japanese on Buna and continued winning victories on Hollandia and Biak with his joint Australian American Corps.
		That August Eichelberger's Eighth Army began a three-year Occupation of Japan where he was instrumental in the rebuilding of a nation.
	cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/ftlvn/ww2.asp (5800 words)

	US Army World War II Corps Commanders
		Eichelberger, who served as assistant chief of staff and later as chief intelligence officer, observed the rival factions in their contest for power and also witnessed most of the fighting in which American soldiers were engaged.
		For Eichelberger, the experience of combat, his observations of Japanese soldiers, and his study of leadership were of great future value when, as a corps and army commander, he faced the challenges of World War II in the Pacific.
		Robert H. Berlin is a supervisory historian and chief of the Historical Services Committee at the Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Berlin2/BERLIN2.asp (6943 words)

	Eichelberger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, born in Urbana, Ohio, on 9 March 1886, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy* in 1909 and was assigned to the 10th Infantry Regiment at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
		During World War I, Eichelberger served on the staff of the 8th Division, which was sent to Siberia, not Europe.
		Feeling that his career was at a standstill, Eichelberger transferred from the infantry to the Adjutant General’s Corps in 1924.
	secretwar.hhsweb.com /eichelberger.htm (281 words)

	Robert L. Eichelberger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Lawrence Eichelberger (9 March 1886 – 26 September 1961) was a general in the United States Army, who commanded the US Eighth Army in the South West Pacific Area during World War II.
		Eichelberger led the Australian-US Advanced New Guinea Force to victory over the Japanese at Buna, in early 1943.
		In August 1945, Eichelberger's Eighth Army began a three-year stint as part of the Occupation of Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_L._Eichelberger (376 words)

	WORLD WAR II
		JCS specified that Rabaul would be taken in three stages: first, the seizure of bases in the southern Solomons; second, the reoccupation of the remainder of the Solomons and the north coast of New Guinea as far as Lae and Salamaua; and third, the recapture of Rabaul itself and the rest of the Bismarck Archipelago.
		Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force in China, train two Chinese divisions airlifted out to Ramgarh in India, push a trickle of war supplies over the "Hump" and send a combat team of U.S. ground forces to support the Chinese in a projected plan to recapture Burma.
		Robert C. Richardson, Jr., who was concurrently Commanding General of the Hawaiian Department.
	home.austin.rr.com /atreidesnetwork/ww2pacific.htm (7307 words)

	TIME.com: Pacific Halfback -- Oct. 2, 1950 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bob Eichelberger flew to Buna the next morning and what he found was a jungle Valley Forge.
		Writes Eichelberger in Our Jungle Road to Tokyo: "When I went to the front on December 2 I couldn't find a front." It didn't take him long to establish one, or to fire the 32nd's commanding general.
		Looking back, Eichelberger is good-naturedly contemptuous of Army Intelligence (he was told to expect 6,000 Japanese on Leyte—his Eighth Army killed more than 27,000 there), and he is impatient with the kind of War Department nonsense that brought ranking generals to Brisbane to be photographed in midwar.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,813471,00.html (704 words)

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		Congressional delegation receiving review of the 30th Infantry under Col. Robert L. Eichelberger, the 65th Coast Artillery (anti-aircraft) under Col. John T. O'Rear, and the Composite Brigade commanded by Brigadier General Henry T. Bergin, commanding general of the 9th Coast Artillery District.
		O'Neil; unknown; Colonel Robert L. Eichelberger; Sen. Sherman Minton; Rep. John M. Costello; Major Arthur R. Wilson (with back to camera); Sen. Elmer Thomas; Major John E. Upston; Rep. Thomas E. Martin; Rep. Charles W. Brooks; Rep. Charles R. Clason; unknown; Rep. William D. Byron; unknown; and Rep. Paul W. Shafer (leaning against the car).
		Colonel Robert L. Eichelberger, commanding officer of the 30th infantry, explaining construction needs to a Congressional party at the Presidio of San Francisco.
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/PhotoInventory/Thomasph1.htm (4749 words)

	Eighth Army
		Robert L. Eichelberger, it earned the sobriquet of "Amphibious Eighth" while making more than 60 "island-hopping" assaults.
		It assisted in the liberation of the Philippines and on July 1, 1945, assumed control of the archipelago, bringing enemy resistance to an end.
		Temporary advance headquarters were established on July 7 at Taegu, and Eighth Army became operational in Korea by July 13.
	www.korean-war.com /8thArmy.html (1173 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		Vice Adm. Robert L. Ghormley, commander of the South Pacific Area, with headquarters at Auckland, New Zealand, planned and exercised overall direction of the Guadalcanal offensive.
		Robert L. Eichelberger was summoned to revitalize the American front before Buna.
		General Krueger's Sixth Army was to conduct the operations; General Eichelberger's Eighth Army took over Leyte, Samar, and Mindoro and prepared to clear the Japanese from the islands south of Luzon.
	www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_9.html (13035 words)

	General Sir Thomas Blamey (in detail)
		Eichelberger soon established a good working relationship with the Australians.
		The 5th Division tightened the noose on Rabaul; Savige's II Corps, with the 3rd and 11th Divisions, began a long campaign to wipe out the Japanese on Bougainville; while the 6th Division cleared New Guinea, capturing the main Japanese base at Wewak and driving the survivors across the mountains.
		Lieutenant General Sir L. Moorehead's I Corps, with the 7th and 9th Divisions, was under MacArthur's command in case he needed the AIF in the Philippines.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-leaders/ww2/blamey.htm (4992 words)

	Second World War Books: Books by Subject
		In Caesar’s Shadow: The Life of General Robert Eichelberger.
		Cressman, Robert J. Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II.
		Forged by Fire: General Robert L. Eichelberger and the Pacific.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/bib/bib128000.shtml (981 words)

	The Champaign County Historical
		Hollingshead's home), to honor the memory of General Eichelberger for his services to the United States Government during WW II.
		DP and L has cut trees on the south end of the building.
		These portraits of Edward and Hannah Gaumer are part of the art collection at the Champaign County Historical Museum.
	www.ctcn.net /~champhistmus/cchs4.html (742 words)

	The 127th Airborne Engineer Battalion (AEB) - Unit History
		It was inscribed “To Tsuno Waru Shiral (00 of Unit), Kalori Shimpei, (Unit), ‘Exert the most for your Country’ (Signed) Kyojito Mikiaga, Lt. General, Chief of War Department, Personnel Bureau, Attendant to the War Minister at Imperial Group Headquarters.” The flag was presented to Major General Joe Swing, Commanding General of the 11th Airborne Division.
		Later, during a visit to the Division Command Post, Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger, Eighth Army Commander, showed interest in the flag.
		In his book, “The Jungle Road to Tokyo,” General Eichelberger reported that over 300 enemy troops were killed in the vicinity of the air strip on December 7, 1944.
	www.ww2-airborne.us /units/127/127.html (1669 words)

	Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, General, United States Army
		Robert Lawrence Eichelberger was a highly popular commander who led many successful operations in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
		After the Japanese surrender, he commanded the first occupation forces in Japan and retired in 1948 as overall commander of Allied ground forces in the Japanese home islands.
		General Eichelberger died at Asheville, North Carolina, on September 26, 1961.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rleichelberger.htm (470 words)

	The Eichelberger Guest Book
		I'm not sure if this is the same Eichelberger family as mine, but I am trying to find information about my family.
		William was the son of David Eichelberger and Jenny Claybaugh, and is of the Michael Eichelberger linage.
		My dad was John Eichelberger, and he was born near Harrisburg, PA. I believe there are relatives in the York/ Hanover area of PA and also near Pittsburgh.
	members.aol.com /Eichbger/reunion/guestbk/eguestbk.htm (1762 words)

	CHAPTEIt XVI
		Robert L. Eichelberger, USASOS (the U.S. Army Services of Supply), and the XIV Corps under the command of Maj. Gen.
		Colonel Dashiell and Capt. Huron L. Vaughan, SnC, were detached from Sixth Army Headquarters as part of a special staff assigned to XIV Corps for the emergency rehabilitation of Manila.
		During February and March, there was a critical shortage of tetanus antitoxin which was urgently needed for the care of wounded Filipino civilians, internees, and guerrillas.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/civilaffairs/chapter16.htm (18957 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Summer 2006
		He tried to foster a similar attitude in his senior ground commanders, but was disappointed that Robert Eichelberger and Walter Krueger always seemed too cautious.
		Though Krueger and Eichelberger did not meet MacArthur’s expectations in that regard, they still must be considered very successful leaders.
		Robert M. Utley, Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 (Lincoln: Univ.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/06summer/crane.htm (4005 words)

	New Guinea
		The U.S. Eighth Army, activated on June 10, 1944, arrived in New Guinea in August and set up headquarters in Hollandia where Lt. Gen.
		Robert L. Eichelberger assumed command on September 7, 1944.
		Fascinating, inspiring stories and details about American heroes of New Guinea who were recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor.
	www.worldwar2history.info /New-Guinea (620 words)

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		It was later split to furnish a Boat Battalion to each of the three regiments of the brigade.
		The business district had been demolished by the Australian Military Forces at the time of the Japanese invasion of Milne Bay but the majority of the private residences and the hospitals were still intact and available for use by the occupying troops.
		The PT boats were too fast even at their lowest speed for the convoy and could not effectively guide it.
	www.armyamphibs.com /2esb.txt (22433 words)

	Theodore Stark Wilkinson, Jr., Vice Admiral, United States Navy
		He was promoted to Vice Admiral following that accomplishment, and he overcame heavy opposition, including furious kamikaze attacks, to put a corps of Walter Krueger's 6th Army ashore at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, January 1945, cooperating with Admiral Daniel E. Barbey in that operation.
		Eichelberger's 8th Army to Japan for occupation duty.
		In January 1946 named to Joint Strategic Survey Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /tswilkin.htm (569 words)

	CHAPTER 23
		In Task One, forces of the South Pacific Area (under Vice Adm. Robert L. Ghormley until November 1942 and thereafter under Admiral William F. Halsey) would seize base sites in the southern Solomons.
		Eichelberger's Eighth Army took over responsibility for operations on Luzon at the end of June and continued the pressure against Yamashita's force in the last-stand area, but they held out there until the end of the war.
		Claire L. Chennault, commanding the small American air force in China, urged that the Hump air line should be used to support an air effort in China, rather than to supply Chinese ground forces.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/AMH-23.html (10095 words)

	New Jersey Military and Veterans Affairs - Militia Museum of New Jersey
		When he got there he was told to wait for a plane that was about to land.
		When the plane landed he was ordered to go aboard, where he met Eighth Army commander Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger, who said that "..I just came from Washington and your Aunt Lola said to look for you to see if you are all right…."
		Geiger received the Purple Heart for wounds incurred during an attempt to supply another force operating on an island off the west coast of Leyte.
	www.state.nj.us /military/museum/geiger.html (1459 words)

	Battle of Buna-Gona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On December 6, following savage close-quarter fighting, the Australians captured Gona village.
		A Bastard of a Place: the Australians in Papua, by Peter Brune, Allen and Unwin 2003, ISBN 1-74114-403-5
		Rottman, Gordon L.; Dr. Duncan Anderson (consultant editor) (2005).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Buna-Gona (1112 words)

	Battles/Decorations/Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Decorations and Citations of Robert Charles Herrin Sr.
		The Eighth Army, led by Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, landed at Subic Bay January 29, and at Batangas two days later.
		These attacks trapped the Japanese in a giant pincers, but they fought back savagely in Manila, at Balete Pass and in the Cagayan Valley.
	members.aol.com /wordstrue/page/Battles.htm (103 words)

	CHESTER NIMITZ Autograph
		IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH, standing directly behind Admiral Nimitz, are (left to right): General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, and Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman, USN.
		This photograph was inscribed to JESSE L. (1910-1988), son and namesake of the pioneer Hollywood producer, who became an important screenwriter.
		His more than 60 films include The Ten Commandments (1956), The Buccaneer, and Lorna Doone and British TV series The Saint and Philip Marlowe, Private Eye.
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=266407 (343 words)

	U.S. Military Profession Reading List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Millett, Allan R. The General: Robert L. Bullard and Officership in the U.S. Army, 1881-1925 (1975).
		Utley, Robert M. Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier (1988).
		Shortal, John F. Forged by Fire: General Robert L. Eichelberger and the Pacific War (1987).
	www.temple.edu /history/People/urwin/Hist0481Books_001.html (3653 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 87019091
		Table of contents for Forged by fire : General Robert L. Eichelberger and the Pacific war / by John F. Shortal.
		The Payoff in the Philippines 93 Epilogue: The Sunset Years 127 Abbreviations 131 Notes 133 Index 151 Illustrations General Robert L. Eichelberger.
		General Swing briefs Eichelberger on road to Manila.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy052/87019091.html (127 words)

	Robert L. Eichelberger Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Robert L. Eichelberger Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
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		Dear Miss Em: General Eichelberger's War in the Pacific, 1942-1945
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Robert_L_Eichelberger (97 words)

	HENRY HARLEY ARNOLD Papers (Library of Congress)
		(2 folders) Eaker, Ira C., and Ruth Apperson, 1935-45 BOX 14 REEL 14 Eichelberger, Robert L., 1940-42 Elliott, J. ("Joe"), 1938-46 Emmons, Harold H., 1942-45 "E" miscellaneous, 1936-50, n.d.
		Hill, Roderick, 1941-42 Hopkins, Harry L., 1942-45, n.d.
		Lower Merion School District, Ardmore, Pa., 1939-50 Luce, Clare Boothe, 1945 "L" miscellaneous, 1938-46, n.d.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/arnold.html (4246 words)

	SV-4-1_htm
		Zubok's anecdotes about such famous crisis veterans as Castro, Robert McNamara, and Ted Sorenson - including their formal and informal statements - provided some of the more fascinating moments in this exploration of the closest the world has yet come to nuclear war.
		Shortal's 1985 dissertation, "Robert L. Eichelberger: The Evolution of a Combat Commander," became the basis for his well-regarded book, Forged by Fire: General Robert L. Eichelberger and the Pacific War (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987).
		She has also been invited to speak this April at the United States Merchant Marine Academy about a merchant mariner named Frederick McMurray whose long career at sea included time as cadet, instructor, and superintendent of the New York Nautical School.
	www.temple.edu /cenfad/strategic-visions/SV-4-03/SV-4-1_htm.htm (7917 words)

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