Robert Lawrence Eichelberger - Arlington VA - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Section 2, Site 4737 C-L.

Description: From Find A Grave: US Army General. A highly decorated World War II veteran, he rose in rank to become commander of the 8th US Army that operated in the Southwest Pacific Area during that time. The youngest of five children, his father was a farmer and lawyer. After graduating from Urbana High School in his hometown in 1903, he attended Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio for a year before securing an appointment to the US Military Academy at West Point, New York. He entered West Point in June 1905 and graduated in June 1909 with a commission as a 2nd lieutenant in the 25th Infantry, transferring to the 10th Infantry at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana the following month. In March 1911, his unit was sent to San Antonio, Texas, where it became part of the Maneuver Division, established to undertake offensive operations during the Border War with Mexico, followed six months later by service in the Panama Canal Zone. In March 1915 he returned to the US and was assigned to the 22nd Infantry at Fort Porter, New York, which was later sent to the Mexican border and based at Douglas, Arizona. In July 1916 he was promoted to the rank of 1st lieutenant and two months later he became Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri. In April 1917 he was promoted to the rank of captain and assigned to the 20th Infantry at Fort Douglas, Utah, and commanded a battalion until September, when he was transferred to the newly formed 43rd Infantry at Camp Pike, Arkansas. In February 1918 he was assigned to the War Department General Staff in Washington DC where he became an assistant to Brigadier General William S. Graves, and was promoted to the rank of major the following June. In August 1918 while newly assigned to the 8th Infantry Division's, he was sent to Siberia as part of the American Expeditionary Force in support the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and served on the ten-nation Inter-Allied Military Council. In April 1920 he left Siberia for the Philippines where he became Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 (Intelligence) of the Philippine Department. After serving in China where he established intelligence offices in Peking (now Beijing) and Tientsin (now Tianjin) he returned to the US in May 1921, where he was assigned to the Far Eastern Section of the G-2 (Intelligence) Division of the War Department General Staff in Washington. In July 1924 he attended the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and after graduation, he remained there as it's Adjutant General. In April 1925 he was assigned to Fort Hayes, Ohio and the following July he transferred to the Adjutant General's Corps in Washington. In 1929 he attended the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania and returned to the Adjutant General's Office in Washington following graduation. In 1931 he was assigned to West Point as its adjutant and promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in August 1934. In April 1935 he became Secretary of the War Department General Staff, working for the Chief of Staff of the US Army, General Douglas MacArthur. In July 1937 he transferred back to the Infantry but remained Secretary of the War Department General Staff until October 1938, and was promoted to the rank of colonel the previous August. He then became commander of the 30th Infantry at the Presidio of San Francisco, California after taking a refresher course at the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. In October 1940 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and appointed Superintendent of West Point. In July 1941 he was promoted to the rank of major general and after the US declared war on Japan the following December, he became commander of the 77th Infantry Division at Fort Jackson, South Carolina in March 1942. Date of birth: 03/09/1886 Date of death: 09/26/1961 Area of notoriety: Military Marker Type: Monument Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: None Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link]

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