Our Jungle Road To Tokyo [Illustrated Edition]

Includes over 250 illustrations, maps and charts of the fighting in Buna, New Guinea and the Philippines.
This is story of General Robert L. Eichelberger, the tough, hard-bitten commander of the US I Corps in the Pacific and then the US Eighth Army. Given the responsibility for the critical Buna front in 1942 by General MacArthur with the words "Bob, I want you to take Buna, or not come back alive". Under his energetic and dynamic leadership much of New Guinea was retaken and thereafter mo...