Of all the great American captains of World War II, none remains more controversial than General Douglas MacArthur, whose genius and folly have taken on mythic proportions. MacArthur alone among ...

Douglas MacArthur was relieved ... almost unparalleled in American military history. MacArthur was a brilliant divisional commander in World War I; youngest army chief of staff in American history ...

Even though his record to that point had been excellent, the First World War gave Douglas MacArthur his first real ... On September 2, 1945, he presided over the Japanese surrender on board ...

Jonathan Wainwright, the highest-ranking American POW of World War II. Jonathan Horn ... in the Philippines after his superior Douglas MacArthur received orders to flee the islands, even as ...

When Douglas MacArthur reached Australia, the U.S. and all the United Nations breathed a sigh of relief and hope: By God, they got him out! Goodbye to Bataan. The siege of Bataan was 53 days old ...

The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. "MacArthur" begins in 1942, following the fall of ...

Douglas MacArthur also ... during the Vietnam War, he stood before President Richard Nixon at the White House. As Howard was about to receive the Medal of Honor on March 2, 1971, he felt nervous ...