JAPAN AND AMERICA, c1930-1955
THE PACIFIC WAR AND THE OCCUPATION OF JAPAN
Series One: The Papers of General Robert L Eichelberger (1886-1961) from the William R Perkins Library, Duke University

Part 4: Subject Files, Writings, Speeches, Photographs (Boxes 28-31, 66-69, 75, 78, 98, 100-101 & 105) and Oversize Material (Boxes 73 & 79)

Part 4 brings together further subject files, writings, speeches, photographs and oversized material.

Eichelberger's writings and speeches span over forty years, from 1917 to 1960, and include material on:

 - Australia, 1948 and 1952
 - Biak, Buna and the Hollandia Campaigns
 - the Formation of the Eighth Army
 - the Future of Japan, 1947-1952
 - Glider Infantry
 - the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952
 - Eichelberger's activities as consultant on the Far East in the Department of the Army and then in the Pentagon, 1949-1954
 - the Korean War
 - General Douglas MacArthur
 - the Philippines, 1945-1948
 - Siberia, 1917-1924
 - Eichelberger's civic work in North Carolina, 1952-1960
 - Retrospective comments on Japan and the War in the Pacific, 1952-1960

Subject files relating to the Siberian Expedition, 1917-1924, document Eichelberger's early career. The files include situation reports, material on the defence of Vladivostok and correspondence, 1918-1920, during the period Eichelberger served as Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations Division, and Chief Intelligence Officer with the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia.

Photographs, oversize items and printed material provide a wide array of further information on Eichelberger's army career, including files on Australia, the New Guinea Campaign, the Philippines Campaign, the Occupation of Japan 1945-1949, and Eichelberger's memoir, Our Bloody Jungle Road to Tokyo, serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in 1949.

Shigeru Yoshida wrote:

"This is to tell you how I enjoyed reading your Jungle Road to Tokyo during the holidays. Having known you so well as I do, I relish your graphic, intimate, personal account of the island-to-island operations of the army under your command. It is a fine, authentic record of the Pacific War. I appreciate the good words you have to say on Japanese co-operation with the Occupation forces. thousand thanks for your kindness in sending me the book." (5 January 1951)

Printed material, 1942-1961, includes:

 - War Heroes, July-September 1942
 - Fighting on Guadalcanal
 - The Phi Gamma Delta
 - The American Mercury
 - The Eighth Army
 - The Wild Cat
 - Chronology of the War in the South West Pacific, 1941-1944
 - Biennial Report of the Chief of the US Army to the Secretary of War, 1 July 1943- 30 June 1945
 - Eighth US Army in Japan
 - Logistics, January 1947
 - Eighth Army Chapel Center, Yokohama, Japan, 1946-1947
 - American Red Cross, 1948
 - Keener View of Europe, 1948
 - Philippine Constabulary Brassard, 1948
 - West Point Annual Dinner,1948
 - Pacific Neighbours: The Federal Journal of the Australian-American Association, volume 7, No 2, 1952
 - The 1957 Australian-American Journal
 - Asheville Civilian, 14 January 1958 and 2 October 1961
 - Fifth Annual Lake Logan Conference, 1959
 - The Atlantic (including an article on the Siberian expedition), January 1959
 - History & Comments on the Military Pay Bill of 1958 & why it should be amended
 - Soviet Historiography and America's Role in the Intervention by George F Kennan
 - The Atlantic (including an article on Why Japan Surrendered), October 1960
 - Welcome MacArthur! Commemorative Souvenir Issue [1961 ?]
 - From the Car Window, Tokyo - Kobe
 - Kokichi Mikimoto and his People by Dr Iwazo Ototake
 - Communism at Work in China, by Stanley Hornbeck
 - The Amphibious Eighth
 - The Papuan Campaign: The Buna-Sanananda Operation
 - War Stories
 - The Army Mutual Aid Association, April 1949-March 1950
 - Biographical materials about General and Mrs Eichelberger, 1942-1948