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OCR Page 1 of 31Eichelberger, RL - Diary, 1 Jan 45 - 23 Oct 45
,SAng. - out45)
14 Jan 45: correspondents Frank Kluckhomm & Lindsay Parrott
(NYT) and It. RC Lundgren, USN, and It E H Jenison attached
7th Fleet PRO, Chie f Naval Ops, at office (in morning) - rec'd
word M-7 is on and M-3 off - had conf. w/ G-2 Jones at 2200
discussing G-2 situation
(n.b. E. seems to have had good rels/ w/ press - spent
fair amt of time w/ them)
3 Mar 45 - flew over Cavite, Manila, and Harbor - then N. to
Clark Field - landed about 1000 - went w/ Byers, and Downer to
Tarlac where saw MacA - lunched at sugar plantation halfway
btwn Tarlac and Cabanatuan- spoke and lunched w/ BC (Big chey?
) - he expressed great satis. w/ my work #/ 11th AB
and said he intentionally brought out good prop for 8th's
releases - E/ intimated that "it gave a fine picture of his
ability to manipulate two armies instead of one, pting out his ear
early poverty in roops back in '42. " - PC said Kreuger had been
"very slow and unaggressive but was improving. - Griswold had
done better than he'd expected - 1st Cav. was his favorite -
N"I asked him the answer to the $64.00 question and he said that
GCM (Marshall) had promised to support him when he feft Leyte for
command of all the army troops in the Pac but that more recently
he had tried to put over supreme command for himself in the Pac
w/ Nimitz, Arnold and MacA commding the three major services.
BC said King opposed this and he had to drop it and that he now
expects GCM to support him. He said that Prime Minister Curtin
and Gen. Blamey had opposed Am command of Aussie troops in the
south but he suspected he wld use some Am troops in the Capture
of Batavia.' - his present plan to capture Balikpapan, Borneo,
in May andBatavia in June, then wld turn over everything in Aust.
terr. to Aussies and everthing in Dutch terr. to Neth., declare
war in S Pac over, and turn over all tropps exc those needed in
Bhils. - BS said had recently asked Marshall to give him quick
decision about who wld common future operations in N so that
plans cld be made - rec'd "a rather curt telegram" that this
before JCS and wld be notified soon of decision - had talked
w/ Adm Cook from ND and Cook had said, 'You know when we in
the Navy are going to lose out on something we usually hold on
until the end w/ the hope that we get out of it as much as we
can.' - felt this ind. course, and thought Cook later regretted
saying it- felt Cook knew BC wld win out - said had talked to
Hurley, "honest" and Wedemeyer, "not brilliant but has courage. "-
BC advised Wedemeyer to talk to Rich rather than Buck in Hawaii
bec. Rich is friendly to Army while Buck and Harmon sold out to
Navy - if he were given command, wld bust Buck
-asked BC about promotion of Byers, Bowen Thayer - turned
down until present ops completed - "I told him what a deep
feeling I had about his control of army troops in future ops
against J but by feelin was not selfish bec I felt anybody
that took command wld use the Eighth A. He saidthat from now
on Eighth A wld be treated on parity w/ Sixth or any other army."
-BC felt Eisenhower's "curve" had gone down since last summer
and not now considered great leader once was - also agreed w/
E. that Am. public wld not give Am army on Rhine credit for vic-
tories but wld give it to pressure of Sov. troops from now on -
public's great interest from now on wld also be in Japanese war
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