Eighth United States Army

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Eighth United States Army - often unofficially abbreviated EUSA - is the commanding formation of all US Army troops in South Korea.The unit first activated on 10 June 1944 in the United States, being commanded by Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger. The Eighth Army took part in many of the amphibious landings in the Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II, eventually participating in no less than sixty of them. The first mission of the Eighth Army, in September 1944, was to take over from the US Sixth Army in New Guinea, New Britain, the Admiralty Islands and on Morotai, in order to free up the Sixth Army to engage in the Philippines Campaign (1944-45).