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In 1943 I was born into a world at war. My father, an American infantry captain, was in New Guinea with General Robert Eichelberger’s Eighth Army. Eichelberger later disclosed that his marching orders from General MacArthur had been to clear New Guinea of the enemy or not return. Both he and my father survived, butContinue reading “The Boys in the Fifth”