Word: macarthurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first name was Douglas. But there was no need in New Guinea or on Corregidor or in the Solomons or Tokyo or on any of the continents of the earth to ask his title or by what name his parents had christened him. It was enough to say-MacArthur...
Larger Than Life. One of the most brilliant soldiers of all time, MacArthur stamped out his character and achievement on a full half-century of history. In another age, he might have been an emperor. He envisioned himself as a child of destiny. Like Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, he conceived and fought monumental battles with huge armies, and like those bygone warriors, he viewed his times and his own acts as decisive in history. His triumphs and his failures often thrust him into whirlwinds of international controversy. He generated stubborn loyalties and intense hatreds. He was a realist...
...memory of the fall of Bataan and Corregidor drove MacArthur through a brilliant Pacific campaign. He was one of the first Army generals to be sold on the potential of strategic air power. With Lieutenant General George C. Kenney as his No. 1 air strategist, he mounted furious assaults upon the Japanese land and naval forces that had smothered the Pacific islands. "It doesn't matter how much you have, so long as you fight with what you have," he said. "It doesn't matter where you fight, so long as you fight. Because where you fight...
Supported by naval and air power, MacArthur attacked constantly, leapfrogging through a series of coastal assaults on key islands that isolated the Japanese chunk by chunk. In October 1944, he landed on Leyte; three months later he was back on Luzon; and 25 days after that, he claimed Manila. Cried MacArthur: "On to Tokyo!" On Sept. 2, 1945, as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, he accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo...
...Sengstaken tube was removed from the esophagus today at noon, and . . . there is no evidence of recurrent bleeding." The surgical jargon in the report on General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, by distinguished doctors at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, covered not only what had ailed the patient but also an ingenious device to relieve the trouble...