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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 Southwest Pacific Area during World War II.
Robert L. Eichelberger (born March 9, 1886, Urbana, Ohio, U.S.—died September 26, 1961, Asheville, North Carolina) was a U.S. Army general who during World War II retrieved strategic Japanese-held islands, thus helping to end the war in the Pacific.
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7 de feb. de 2017 · On November 30, 1942, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander of World War II’s South West Pacific Area, summoned Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger to fly from Australia to MacArthur’s for- ward headquarters at Port Moresby, New Guinea.
Robert Eichelberger (1886-1961) commanded the Eighth United States Army in the Southwest Pacific during World War II and the Occupation of Japan.
Robert L. Eichelberger. A frontal portrait of Robert L. Eichelberger depicted as Lieutenant General, Commanding First Army Corps, Commanding 8th Army Pacific Theater. An oil painting on an illustration board.
Eichelberger passed away on September 26, 1961 at age 75 in Asheville, North Carolina. On September 29, 1961 he was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery at Section 2, Lot 4737-C-L.
General Robert L. Eichelberger has been called the “Fireman of the Southwest Pacific” because of his success during intense and pivotal campaigns in the Pacific Theater during World War II (Shortal 1987, xi). But there are currently two contradictory schools of thought in the historiography of General Robert L. Eichelberger’s generalship.
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