Blame And (a Little) Praise (October 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 6)

Blame And (a Little) Praise

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October 2000 | Volume 51, Issue 6

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.