Almost all of the occupation forces' top brass were at the dockside in Yokohama one day last week as Lieut. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger walked slowly up the gangplank of an Army transport. There were few dry eyes among the generals and colonels. Many an Eighth Army G.I. was in the dumps. Said one hard-faced sergeant: "There goes the best goddam man the Army ever raised." At 62, Bob Eichelberger was going into retirement.
Absent from the leave-taking was his commander, General Douglas MacArthur; they had said their farewells in private two days...
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