Our Jungle Street to Tokyo

“Battle historical past at its greatest” Kirkus Critiques

On 20 August 1942, Robert L. Eichelberger departed the US for Australia to serve underneath Common Douglas MacArthur within the warfare for the Pacific.

He was thrown into the warmth of the motion, as inside a matter of months, the Allied armies stormed the Japanese beachheads at Buna.

Eichelberger said that although the Buna marketing campaign was the primary Allied Floor Power victory within the Pacific “it was purchased at a considerable value in demise, wounds, illness, despair, and human struggling.”

For the subsequent three years, Eichelberger and the boys that he led, fought bloody campaigns at Biak, Leyte, Mindanao, and elsewhere as they tried to defeat the Japanese.

Eichelberger and the Eighth Military performed fifty-two separate D-days between the Battle of Leyte and the Japanese give up. It’s little marvel due to this fact that John C. Frederiksen in
American Army Leaders said that Eichelberger was “The Pacific theater’s most profitable exponent of amphibious warfare.”

Our Jungle Street to Tokyo is just not merely an account of navy operations as Eichelberger additionally feedback on Australian-American relations by the Pacific marketing campaign, Mrs. Roosevelt’s go to to the troops, the every day lifetime of his males, how they survived the inhospitable jungles of the pacific islands, and the realities of the navy occupation of Japan.

“a significant file on an vital section of the Pacific story.”
Kirkus Critiques

“The wartime commander of the Eighth Military provides a simple and modest account of the campaigns of the Military floor forces from the Buna operation to the Philippines and victory.” Henry L. Roberts,
Overseas Affairs

Robert L. Eichelberger was a lieutenant-general in the US Military who commanded the Eighth United States Military within the Southwest Pacific Space throughout World Battle Two. After the top of the warfare he remained in Japan as a part of the occupying military for 3 years. He retired on the finish of this stint in 1948.
Our Jungle Street to Tokyo was revealed in 1950. He lived the remainder of his life in Asheville, North Carolina, and handed away in 1961.