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Blame And (a Little) Praise

June 2023
1min read

Taking nothing away from Gen. Lucian Truscott, my candidate for most underrated general would be Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger. As commanding general of I Corps, and later of the U.S. 8th Army, he did the heavy lifting in the Southwest Pacific theater, while the theater commander, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, posed for holy pictures.

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