Between two and three miles out of town was a cutoff, Southeast 120th Street today, which went west towards Eichelberger Cave, located near present-day County Road 467.

Ethyl Eichelberger ( born James Roy Eichelberger, July 17, 1945 – August 12, 1990 ) was an American drag performer, playwright, and actor.

Ethyl Eichelberger was born James Roy Eichelberger on July 17, 1945 in Pekin, Illinois.

* Ethyl Eichelberger DNG — Born James Roy Eichelberger, a famous drag queen, playwright and actor, for whom a prize was founded by the downtown Manhattan theatre institution P. S.

Eichelberger later wrote that " the fighting was desperate and the outcome of the whole miserable, tortured campaign was in doubt ".

Eichelberger wrote back that he was pushing the offensive with the kinds of numbers he felt the situation warranted.

In his book, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo written in 1950, Eichelberger wrote, " Buna was ... bought at a substantial price in death, wounds, disease, despair, and human suffering.

Robert Lawrence Eichelberger ( 9 March 1886 – 26 September 1961 ) was a general officer in the United States Army, who commanded the Eighth United States Army in the South West Pacific Area during World War II.

Robert Lawrence Eichelberger was born at Urbana, Ohio on 9 March 1886, the youngest of five children of George Maley Eichelberger, a farmer and lawyer, and Emma Ring Eichelberger.

Eichelberger was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 25th Infantry on 11 June 1909, but was transferred to the 10th Infantry at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, on 22 July.

It was in Panama that Eichelberger met Emma Gudger, the daughter of Hezekiah A. Gudger, the Chief Justice of the Panama Canal Zone Supreme Court.

It too was sent to the Mexican border, and was based at Douglas, Arizona, where Eichelberger was promoted to first lieutenant on 1 July 1916.

Following the American entry into World War I in April 1917, Eichelberger was promoted to captain on 15 May.

While he was en route to California, Eichelberger learned from Graves that the 8th Division's destination had changed, and it was now bound for Siberia instead.

On 29 November, after 13 days of poor results and high casualties, he ordered Lieutenant General Eichelberger — commander of the U. S. I Corps in the South West Pacific Area — to relieve Major General Edwin F. Harding along with most of his regimental and battalion commanders.

Among the recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross for Siberia and North Russia were Robert L. Eichelberger, who would earn a second medal in World War II, and Sidney C. Graves, who had previously received a Distinguished Service Cross in World War I.

In 1944, Eichelberger had notable victories at Hollandia and the Battle of Biak.

Davis had offered to nominate Eichelberger for a place at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.

Eichelberger turned this down, as he had been away from the infantry for many years, and some infantry officers might be jealous.

Before taking up the position, Eichelberger met with Craig's successor as Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, who warned him that the courses at the Command and General Staff College and Army War College had been drastically shortened in order to meet the needs of the expanding Army, and that West Point would suffer a similar fate unless Eichelberger could make the course more relevant to the Army's immediate needs.

For his chief of staff, Eichelberger chose Clovis Byers, an officer who had also attended Ohio State and West Point, and had been a fellow member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

" Eichelberger's I Corps headquarters was ready for overseas service, and had training in amphibious warfare, and Eichelberger had experience working with MacArthur, so Marshall selected him for the job instead.

On meeting Australian commanders, Eichelberger noted that many of them " had already been in combat with the British in North Africa, and, though they were usually too polite to say so, considered the Americans to be — at best — inexperienced theorists.

An appalled Krueger felt that Eichelberger had been let down by his staff, and offered to transfer Byers to an assistant division commander's post, but Eichelberger turned down the offer.

After seeing the situation for himself, Eichelberger concluded that Fuller's 41st Infantry Division had not done too badly.

While still on Biak, Eichelberger learned that MacArthur had selected him to command the newly formed Eighth United States Army, which arrived at Hollandia in August 1944.

The United States Congress, in recognition of his service, promoted Eichelberger, along with a number of other officers who had commanded armies or similar higher formations, to general in 1954.

* Eichelberger at Buna: A Study in Battle Command Thomas M. Huber,

General Robert L. Eichelberger inspects the Australian Guard of Honor at Kure.

alt = Eichelberger stands in the center of the frame in army uniform, with five other uniformed men at work behind him.

Siberia gave Eichelberger a chance to observe the Japanese Army at first hand, and he was impressed by what he saw of their training and discipline.

Other students in the class included Joseph Stilwell, Leonard Gerow and Joseph T. McNarney Eichelberger graduated as a Distinguished Graduate, one of the top quarter of the class, and stayed on at the Command and General Staff College as its Adjutant General.

The new Chief of Staff, General Malin Craig offered Eichelberger command of the 29th Infantry, the demonstration regiment based at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Major General Edwin " Pa " Watson interceded with President Franklin Roosevelt to have Eichelberger appointed the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Over time, Marshall came to believe that Eichelberger's talents were wasted at West Point, but he was opposed by Pa Watson, who wanted Eichelberger to remain at West Point.

I Corps controlled the two American divisions in Australia, Major General Forrest Harding's 32nd Infantry Division, based at Camp Cable near Brisbane ; and Major General Horace Fuller's 41st Infantry Division at Rockhampton, Queensland, where Eichelberger, who was promoted to lieutenant general on 21 October, decided to establish his I Corps headquarters.

In January 1944, Eichelberger was informed that he would be in charge of the next operation, a landing at Hansa Bay with the 24th and 41st Infantry Divisions.

Eichelberger became convinced that America's objectives in Siberia were not necessarily the same as those of her French and British allies, but it was far from clear what they actually were, especially when the State Department and the War Department did not always agree.

The international organizations subcommittee, the Special Subcommittee on International Organization included Welles, Bowman, Pasvolsky, Cohen, Shotwell, Notter, Green Hackworth, the State Department legal adviser and later Clark Eichelberger of the League of Nations Association, and eventually produced a draft charter of a new international organization.

Only then did Eichelberger fully appreciate the difficulty faced by the Allies in overcoming the Japanese forces.

However, Eichelberger did receive the Japanese Imperial Order of Meiji, Order of the Sacred Treasure and Order of the Rising Sun.