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...bomb, its use in 1945 and its future. It was an ordinary, uncurious man without any pretensions to scientific knowledge, without many pretensions of any kind, a man of average size and weight, wearing bifocal glasses, fond of plain food, whiskey-&-water and lodge meetings. It was Harry Truman, 32nd President...
When Eichelberger and his staff of the I Corps* arrived in Australia to report to MacArthur, Australian troops were still being pushed south across the Owen Stanley Mountains. Little more than three months later, when I Corps staff got the call, the counteroffensive had begun, but the U.S. 32nd Infantry Division was stalled before Buna and something had to be done. Eichelberger's orders from MacArthur were: get them out of the mud and get them moving. One of Eichelberger's first acts was to relieve the commander, Major General Edwin F. Harding, a friend and West Point...
Jungle Trouble. To inspire the 32nd, Eichelberger's method was to get up on the front himself-and his officers went with him, where riflemen could see them. Three brigadiers were wounded but Eichelberger, who insisted on wearing his general's stars within sight of the Japanese ("What's the use of being up here if the boys can't see who I am?'') came through without a scratch...
...32nd's soldiers came to know him as a general who liked to shuck his shirt when the sun was hot, as a kidder who seldom seemed worried. But they also knew him as a rawhiding commander who knew no friends. He fired officers right & left. He also took heavy casualties...
...month after he took command, the division captured Buna and MacArthur had his foothold on the north coast. The men of the 32nd, who called their division cemetery ''Eichelberger Square." then went on to fight the coastal campaign and the battle of the Philippines. This week they had their greatest hour of triumph when General Yamashita walked into their lines...