General Douglas MacArthur, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Chester W. Nimitz, aboard a
(Image: The National WWII Museum.) On December 7, 1941, Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, severely damaging the US Pacific Fleet. When Germany and Italy declared war on the United States days later, America found itself in a global war.
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For more than half of World War II, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur ran the Allied fight in the Southwest Pacific from a suite in Australia's third-largest city. It's now part of the MacArthur.
The Pearl Harbor attack is still seared into a survivor's memory 'Everything blew up and
In 1935 General Douglas MacArthur became the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines. 9 This position was created by the. Fleet at Pearl Harbor and MacArthur's chance for rescue from the Navy if and when the Japanese attacked the Philippines. Anderson also argues that MacArthur cannot be
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Douglas MacArthur After leaving Corregidor, MacArthur and his family traveled by boat 560 miles to the Philippine island of Mindanao, braving mines, rough seas, and the Japanese navy.
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Lieutenant General Douglas MacArthur commanded United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) from headquarters in Manila. MacArthur's command included ground forces and the FEAF. Clark Field was the primary air base for the bombers expected to provide offensive airstrike capability under the Rainbow 5 war plan.
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The answer is pretty much everything. The problems began with an impossible strategic situation. Manila is only two thousand miles from Japan, but five thousand miles from Pearl Harbor. By the.
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, troops were placed on half rations. These soldiers had to make these sacrifices in order for forces heading into the Pacific to have supplies. Commanding General Douglas MacArthur understood what was going on and promised the Filipinos there would be extra troops, planes, and supplies coming to help them.
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How could the army commander in the Philippines—the renowned Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur—have been caught with all his planes on the ground when he had been alerted in the small hours of that morning of the Pearl Harbor attack and warned of the likelihood of a Japanese strike on his forces?
[Photo] Douglas MacArthur disembarking destroyer USS Buchanan at Yokohama, Japan after being
The tiny warship had been given a mission out of all proportion to her size: extricate the legendary General Douglas MacArthur from the Philippines before American and Filipino forces there capitulated to the Japanese.
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Under orders from President Franklin Roosevelt on this day 80 years ago, famed Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur abandoned his island stronghold of Corregidor during his defense of the Philippines.
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Douglas MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 26, 1880. He went to West Point Military Academy where he was commissioned as an engineer in 1905.. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II Douglas MacArthur was given orders to defend the Philippines from the Japanese. At the start of the Pacific War, much.
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In March 1942, General Douglas MacArthur and his family escaped from the Philippines in a daring PT-Boat operation. This article appears in: Late Fall 2012 By Eric Niderost
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History Douglas MacArthur Is One of America's Most Famous Generals. He's Also the Most Overrated Gen. Douglas MacArthur on deck of a ship en route to USAF landing site at Lingayen Gulf in.
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World War II. In 1941, with expansionist Japan posing an increasing threat, Douglas MacArthur was recalled to active duty and named commander of U.S. Army forces in the Far East. On December 8.
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur was sleeping when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. A military adviser to the Philippines, he was awakened in Manila by a phone call.
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December 5, 1993 ON THIS 52nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor, evidence has emerged that one of the towering figures in American military history -- Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur -- was in revolt.