LTG Robert Eichelberger at Biak with John McManus | Webinar
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Japan & the Pacific
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From Buna in New Guinea, across the South Pacific, to the Philippines, Army General Robert Eichelberger masterminded a series of key victories that helped doom Japan. However, in the shadow of General Douglas MacArthur, Eichelberger toiled in obscurity. In June 1944, with the U.S. invasion of Biak floundering, Eichelberger went to Biak to turn the situation around. Join John C. McManus, one of the nation’s leading military historians, to find out how Eichelberger turned things around.
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