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 and Oversize Material
(Boxes 28-31, 66-69, 79-88 and 93-98)
Military Papers series: Siberian Expedition subseries
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Box 28:
Siberian Expedition, 1917-1918 (4 folders)
Frank L Cole - Notes on Siberian Expedition, 1918 (1 folder)
Siberian Expedition, 1918-1919 (1 folder)
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Box 29:
Siberian Expedition, 1919 (5 folders)
Land Defence of Vladivostok, Siberia, August 1919 (1 folder)
Laurence B Packard The Czechoslovaks in Russia, August 1914 - February 1919 (72pp, 1 folder)
Karl Phillip, 1919 (small notebook; very faint, 1 folder)
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Box 29 continued:
Siberian Expedition: Reports: 3 January - 7 February 1919 (folder 1 of 2)
Box 30:
Siberian Expedition
- Reports: 3 January - 7 February 1919 (folder 2 of 2)
- Reports: February - 15 April 1919 (1 folder)
- Reports: April - July 1919 (1 folder)
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Box 30 continued:
Siberian Expedition:
- Reports: 9 July - 16 August 1919 (1 folder)
- Reports: 11 August - 10 October 1919 (1 folder)
Box 31:
Siberian Expedition:
- Reports: 11 October - 25 December 1919 (1 folder)
- Reports: 1919 - 1920 (3 folders)
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Box 31 continued:
- Siberian Expedition, January-April 1920 (1 folder)
- Siberian Expedition, May 1920-February 1924 (1 folder)
- Summary, American and Allied Intervention, 1920 (1 folder)
- Eugene Trupp Leaflets from the History of the Civil War in Russia, 1920 (1 folder)
- Siberian Expedition, 1921-1922 (1 folder)
- Siberian Expedition, Miscellaneous, n.d. (1 folder)
Writings and speeches series: chronological subseries
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Box 66:
Writings and Speeches, 1920-1950
- 1920-1945 (1 folder) [also includes towards rear of file some other texts; p4 of the text of the Potsdam Declaration is missing from the original].
- 30 May 1944-1947 (1 folder; items 1-22 with index at front of folder; Addresses and Personal Messages by Lt. General Robert Eichelberger)
- 1946 (1 folder)
- 1947 (1 folder)
- 1948 (1 folder)
- 1949 (1 folder)
- 1950 (1 folder)
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Box 67:
Writings and Speeches, 1951-1959
- 1951-1952 (1 folder)
- 1953 (1 folder)
- 1954 (1 folder)
- 1955 (1 folder)
- 1956-1957 (1 folder)
- 1958 (1 folder)
- 1959 (1 folder)
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Box 68:
Writings and Speeches, 1960-1961 and n.d.
- 1960-1961 (1 folder)
- n.d. (2 folders)
Subject subseries
- Australia, 1948 (1 folder)
- Biak, Schouten Islands, 4 April 1948-10 February 1949, n.d. (1 folder)
- Buna, Hollandia Campaigns; Formation of Eighth Army, 18 March 1948-12 February 1949 (1 folder)
- Buna, New Guinea, 1948 (1 folder)
- Documents regarding the Eighth Army, n.d. (1 folder)
- Glider Infantry, 187th, n.d. (1 folder)
- Hollandia, New Guinea, 1948 (1 folder)
- Future of Japan, 1947-1952, n.d. (1 folder)
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Box 69:
Writings and Speeches (continued):
- Japan: Occupation of, 1948-1955, n.d. (1 folder)
- Japan: War Criminals, 1948, n.d. (1 folder)
- Korean War, 25 June 1953 (1 folder)
- Douglas MacArthur, n.d. (1 folder) [Draft article on General MacArthur annotated by R.L.E. as "not written by me. Evident errors in statements. Probably to glorify MacA - article prepared in GHQ." 45pp; incomplete; pp1-5 and pp24-30 missing from original. Followed by a revised version, with minor annotations, entitled MacArthur's Claim to Greatness. 37pp.]
- Philippines, 1945-1948 (1 folder)
- Siberia, 1946-1947, n.d. (1 folder)
Press releases subseries
Press Releases, 1938-1984, n.d.
- 1938-1945 (1 folder)
- 1946 (1 folder)
- 1947-1958 (1 folder)
- 1960-1984 and n.d. (1 folder)
Oversize material
Oversize Box 73:
- Writings and Speeches, 1944-1946, and n.d. (1 folder)
- Clippings, 1943-1948, and n.d. (1 folder)
[Boxes 70-74 comprise restricted material from the Dictation subseries which is not available for filming]
Published works subseries
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Box 75:
- Eighth U.S. Army - Up to Now!, (June 1965) 56pp. (1 volume)
- Engineers of the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1945. Volume IV: Amphibian Engineer Operations. 766pp. (1 volume)
- The Entry of the Soviet Union into the War Against Japan: Military Plans, 1941-1945. 107pp. (1 volume)
- History of XI Corps, 15 June 1942 - 15 March 1946. 124pp. (1 volume)
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Box 75 continued:
- History of the 32nd Infantry Division in WWII, (1953) 196pp. (typescript) (1 volume)
[Boxes 76-77 contain three large printed volumes and have been omitted. They are volumes of the West Point Year Book, entitled The Howitzer for the years 1909, 1941 and 1942.]
Box 78:
- Under the Southern Cross: The Saga of the Americal Division, 1949 (598pp, typescript, 1 volume)
- United States at War, 7 December 1944-7 December 1945 (214pp, 1 volume)
- 102nd United States Cavalry, 1941-1942 (74pp, 1 volume)
- 1909 USMA Eleven Years After, 1920 (118pp, 1 volume)
Pictures series
Places and events subseries
People subseries
Boxes 79-89:
Photographs and Portraits [after consulting staff in the Department of Special Collections, William R Perkins Library, Duke University and the filming staff at Dataplex Corporation, North Carolina, it was decided to omit Boxes 79-89 from this microfilm project as reproducing this large quantity of pictorial, photographic and illustrative material posed a range of technical problems and copyright issues which could not be easily overcome. Three folders of photographs of Eichelberger in groups, 1939-1948 and n.d. have also been omitted because there are many duplicates. Boxes 90, 90a, 91 and 92 containing further photographs have also been omitted.]
Album subseries
Boxes 93-97 and Oversize Boxes 81, 90, 91 and 92 [these albums and folders of photographs and other illustrative material have also been omitted for similar reasons to those stated above].
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Box 98: Albums: Photographs
- Volume XXI, Occupation of Japan and Ceremonies at General Eichelberger's Retirement, 3-10 August 1948 (1 folder)
- Volume XXII, Oversize material [omitted]
- Volume XXIII, Visit of General and Mrs Eichelberger to Australia, 26-28 April 1952 (1 folder)
- Volume XXIV, Visit of General and Mrs Eichelberger to Australia, 26 April-8 May 1952 (1 folder)
- Volume XXV, The Artillery Centre, Fort Sills, Oklahoma, n.d. (1 folder, 1 volume)
[Box 99 contains miscellaneous photographs and has been omitted]
Printed material series: oversize material
- Oversize Box 79: Printed Materials, 1943-1960 and n.d.
- Saturday Evening Post, 20 February 1943 (1 folder)
- Life, 22 May 1944 (1 folder)
- Life, 8 October 1945 (1 folder)
- The New York Times Magazine, 16 September 1945 (1 folder)
- Manila Liberation 10th Anniversay: A Fookien Times Supplement, February 1955 (1 folder)
- Japan - United States: Amity and Trade Centennial, May 1960 (1 folder)
- Sydney and the Blue Mountains (1 folder)
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Oversize Box 79 continued
Our Bloody Jungle Road to Tokyo, serialised version in 7 issues of The Saturday Evening Post, 13 August 1949-24 September 1949 (1 bound volume)
Printed material series
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Box 100:
Printed Material, 1893-1943 includes:
- Class 8
- Real Heroes (War Comic) 1943
- War Heroes (War Comic) July-September 1942
- Fighting on Guadalcanal
- The Phi Gamma Delta, May 1943 (1 folder)
Printed Material, 1944-1945 includes:
- The American Mercury; The Eighth Army; The Wild Cat
- Chronology of the War in the South West Pacific, 1941-1944
- Time, 10 September 1945
- Biennial Report of the Chief of the US Army to the Secretary of War, 1 July 1943- 30 June 1945; The Phi Gamma Delta, December 1945 (1 folder)
Printed Material, 1946-1947 includes:
- Dinner, 10 January 1946; Eighth US Army in Japan
- Overseas Management of Dependents
- Clemson Agricultural College, South Carolina; New World News, January 1947
- Logistics, January 1947; Eighth Army Chapel Center, Yokohama, Japan (1 folder)
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Box 100 continued
Printed Material, 1948 includes:
- Chronicles; Armed Forces Talk and American Red Cross
- Keener View of Europe; Short Hauls and Bulletin Board;
- 1st NRA Annual Convention; Philippine Constabulary Brassard
- West Point Annual Dinner (1 folder)
- Printed Material, 1949 (1 folder)
- Printed Material, 1950-1952 (1 folder)
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Box 101:
Printed Material, 1952-1957 includes:
- Roster of Eminence, 1949-1952 (U S News and World Report);
- Pacific Neighbours. The Federal Journal of the Australian-American Association, vol 7, No 2,1952
- The 1957 Australian-American Journal
- General MacArthur, Major General Whitney: One of the Traces of the Occupation Army, 1953
- Congressional Record, 84th Congress, first session
- From Knowledge the Power of Decision, by Colonel Frank Kowalski Jr, 1956
- XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, 1957 (1 folder)
Printed Material, 1958-1960 includes:
- Asheville Civilian, 14 January 1958
- Fifth Annual Lake Logan Conference, 1959
- American Overseas Military Cemeteries and Memorials, 1959
- The Presbyterian College Magazine, 1958
- 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 Georg F Kennan (from The American Historical Review, vol LXV, No 2, January 1960)
- The Atlantic (including an article on Why Japan Surrendered), October 1960 (1 folder)
Printed Material, 1961-1962 and n.d. includes:
- Freemason's Eductional Bulletin, Vol 1, No12, Manila, 15 July 1961
- Welcome MacArthur! Commemorative Souvenir Issue [1961 ?]
- Asheville Civilian, 2 October 1961
- Assembly (West Point Journal), April 1962
- From the Car Window, Tokyo - Kobe
- Kokichi Mikimoto and his People by Dr Iwazo Ototake
- First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. Third Letter to Members of the Three Rolls
- General Douglas MacArthur (American War Leaders. Series No 3)
- Communism at Work in China by Stanley Hornbeck;
- Fujiya Hotel; A Japanese Churchwoman writes to her friends in the US
- The Amphibious Eighth (1 folder)
Printed Material, n.d. includes:
- The Papuan Campaign: The Buna-Sanananda Operation
- War Stories (1 folder)
[Boxes 102-104, containing news clippings, has been omitted]
Miscellaneous series: subject subseries
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Box 105:
- Army Mutual Aid Association, April 1949-March 1950, n.d. (1 folder)
- Biographical materials about General and Mrs Eichelberger, 1942-1948, n.d. (1 folder)
- Camouflage material, 1952 (1 folder)
- Deaths of Robert L and Emma Eichelberger, 1961-1972 (1 folder)
[Documents pertaining to Helen Felder, 1943-1947, and three folders of financial papers have been omitted. Miscellaneous material in Boxes 106-112, consisting of cannisters of film, scrapbooks and other items not suitable for filming have been omitted].
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