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...Long Trail. For General Eichelberger and his Eighth Army, Tokyo was the end of one of the bitterest, hardest fought trails of the Pacific War. For the General it began three years and 4,000 roundabout miles away, in the blood and mud of a wretched copra settlement called Buna on the north coast of New Guinea...
...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 classmate ('09). Some of the 32nd...
...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...
...After Buna, Eichelberger trained troops in Australia until he got back into action again at Hollandia, took the vital New Guinea port with deftness and speed. The Japs were hit where they weren't at Hollandia, but there were enough stray units around to infiltrate Eichelberger's command post by night...
November: MacArthur struck at Buna on the north coast of New Guinea, began his march toward the Philippines...