" General Robert Eichelberger wrote to Herring in 1959, after McCarthy's history appeared:

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

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.

Eichelberger transferred back to the infantry in July 1937, although he remained Secretary of the War Department General Staff until October 1938, in the rank of colonel from 1 August.

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.

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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 a poor student, as he had been at high school and Ohio State, but did become a cadet lieutenant, and graduated 68th in his class of 103.

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.

General Eichelberger recalled in his memoirs how the guerrillas stood " stiff in starched khaki and resplendent with ornaments.

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.

Having never visited the front, MacArthur sent his Chief of Staff — Richard K. Sutherland — with a letter for Eichelberger which Sutherland delivered on Christmas Day.

Graves took Eichelberger with him, initially as his Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 ( Operations ).

The American Expeditionary Force Siberia departed San Francisco on 15 August, with Eichelberger as its Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 ( Intelligence ).

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

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.

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.

Eichelberger was nominated to command American forces in Operation Torch, and he was ordered to conduct training in amphibious warfare with the 3rd, 9th and 30th Infantry Divisions in Chesapeake Bay in cooperation with Rear Admiral Kent Hewitt.

" 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.

Eichelberger was not happy with the assignment, especially when he found out about Richardson, and " knew General MacArthur well enough to know that he was going to be difficult to get along with ".

Eichelberger departed for Australia on 20 August with 22 members of his staff in a B-24.

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.

Eichelberger relieved Harding, and replaced him with the division's artillery commander, Brigadier General Albert W. Waldron.

After the fall of Buna, Eichelberger was placed in command of the Allied force assembled to reduce the remaining Japanese positions around Sanananda, with Australian Major General Frank Berryman as his chief of staff.

For the battle, Eichelberger received the Distinguished Service Cross, but along with ten other generals, all of whom received the same citation.

Since Sixth Army would do all the planning, and there was as yet little scope for corps-sized operations, Eichelberger found himself with a training role, preparing the 24th, 32nd and 41st Infantry Divisions for future missions.

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 took two officers with him from I Corps: Byers and Colonel Frank S. Bowen, his G-3.

After nearly 40 years of service, Eichelberger retired with the rank of lieutenant general on 31 December 1948.

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 found that the Japanese, who were present in larger numbers than originally reported, were ensconced in caves overlooking the airfield sites.

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.

Nonetheless, as at Buna, Eichelberger relieved a number of officers that he felt were not performing as the battle ground on.

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