It almost happened twice and is long overdue. It was time for General Douglas MacArthur to be awarded the rank of General of the Armies of the United States. Though not an actual Six Star General ...

General Douglas MacArthur, 1905. Library of Congress. Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life, from cradle to grave, in the United States Army. He spent his early years in remote sections of New ...

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 ...

General MacArthur’s landing at Leyte on October 20, 1944, was the first time he had been in the Philippines since he was ...

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In the heady days of October 1944, as Filipinos swooned in adulation of their liberator MacArthur, the legend of Private Moon will slowly rise as the fog of war clears. (To be concluded ...

President Truman famously sacked General Douglas MacArthur—who was wildly popular at the time—for questioning Truman’s approach to the Korean War, explaining later that he “fired him ...

The MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, colloquially known as “genius grants,” is today “a $800,000, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an ...

On that day, the popular general declared: “People of the Philippines, I have returned.” World War II ended in June 1945. MacArthur would continue as a military leader, and often contentious ...

The space at 261 Granby Street will officially reopen on Thursday as MacArthur General Store, paying homage to the longtime ...