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A Douglas MacArthur Story (2299 words) |
 | MacArthur's position in Filipino heart, right up there alongside their own national heroes such as the martyred Dr. Jose Rizal (who was executed by the Spanish) and Manuel Quezon, does not have merely to do with the victory over Japan in World War II or with the liberation of the Philippines. |
| MacArthur admired the Filipino guerrilla's style, their bravery, their ingenuity (as did his son, who was to make dramatic use of Filipino guerrilla operations during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines forty years later). |
| MacArthur's first landfall in the retaking of the Philippines was the provincial capital of Tacloban, the typhoon-swept chief port of Leyte province, hometown of a leggy, doe-eyed motherless girl who, twenty years later, was to become the First Lady of the Philippines. |
| KWCC Biography - MacArthur (2585 words) |
| General Douglas MacArthur, was commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, commander of the Allied Forces during the occupation of Japan, and commander of United Nations (U.N.) forces during the first nine months of the Korean War. |
| MacArthur was to lead American forces in the invasion of the Japanese home islands, and he was in the process of preparing for that impending and horrific operation when the atomic bomb brought an abrupt and decisive end to the war. |
| MacArthur tested the waters of politics in 1948 by allowing his name to be placed on Republican Party primary ballots in a number of states in the spring and summer prior to the 1948 election. |
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