i have this museum display project on general douglas macarthur?

Question

and i have to write a page about what my item was which was Douglas,how it came to , what it was used for, important/impact of person.

and my brain is dead, so i have no idea on what else to right baout him

Answer 1

General Douglas MacArthur attended West Point. As a West Point baseball player, he scored the winning run in the first varisty baseball game ever played against the Navy team. During World War One he served in France in command of the Rainbow Division, so called because the ranks were filled with soldiers from every state in the country. After World War One he rose through the ranks to four-star general and became the Chief of Staff of the Army. During the Hoover administration he used tanks and troops to quell the bonus marchers and raze their urban encampment at Anascostia Flats in Maryland. These were veterans of World War One who had come to Washington in hopes that their promised bonus would be paid earlier than 1941. He left the Army and took over the task of building up forces in the Phillipines. His Chief of Staff for this effort was Dwight Eisenhower. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they attacked and occupied the Phillipines. MacArthur withdrew his remaining forces onto Corregidor Island in Manilla Bay. Ordered by President Roosevelt to leave and make his way to Australia, he turned command over to General Jonathan Wainwright who later surrendered to the Japanese and was taken prisoner.
After getting to Australia via the use of P.T. boats, MacArthur promised the people of the Phillipines that he would return. He then organized and commanded the allied forces during the invasion of New Guinea. From there he began a series of island-hopping campaigns throughout the Southwest Pacific, culminated by the landing at Leyte Gulf in the Phillipines. He had returned and led the effort to wrest the Phillipines from Japanese occupation. Following the Japanese surrender of August 15, 1945 MacArthur presided at the signing of the surrender document on board the battleship USS Missouri which was anchored in Tokyo Bay. President Truman appointed him Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Japan and he headed up the post-war reconstruction effort in Japan, including the development of a new Constitution, the granting of the vote to women and the creation of labor unions.
On June 25, 1950, armed forces of North Korea invaded South Korea. The UN Security Council adopted a peace enforcement resolution under the authority granted in Chapter Seven of the UN Charter. General MacArthur was appointed military commander of that peace enforcement mission with the task of "taking all necessary actions to ensure restoration of the state of things before the invasion". That meant driving the North Korean forces to a position north of the 38th parallel, the border between the two Koreas.
He commanded an amphibious landing at Inchon on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula and. within 6 days, had driven all N orth Korean forces north of the 38th parallel. However, he continued to pursue those force northward towards the Yalu River which was the border between North Korea and Red China. The Chinese, fearful of the force closing in on its border, sent over 600,000 troops southward, driving the UN forces to the south. President Truman had ordered MacArthur not to pursue those North Korean forces. He disobyed that order and Truman relieved him of command.
MacArthur returned to the U.S. for the first time since the mid-1930s. He addressed a Joint Meeting of the Congress and received a welcome home parade through lower Manhattan. True to the words expressed in his speech to the Congress he just faded away.
Despite the laurels heaped on him by supporters, his only son (Arthur) changed his last name and went into anonymity.

Answer 2

I would recommend you checking out the book, "American Caesar" by William Manchester. I'm not sure how many biographies have been written about MacArthur, but that book is probably the best known biography.

Another book, if you want to look at MacArthur from the political perspective, read "Truman" by David McCullough. Yes, this biography is about Harry Truman, but MacArthur was one of his greatest Nemesis's'. MacArthur's trumping Truman's and joint chiefs of staff's authority is well written.

One other thing I can say - he was either very well loved, or deeply loathed by those who had contact or worked with him. There was no in-between, and both sides have iron-clad reasons for their passionate like or dislike.

I add one more thing - I have letters written by my great uncle who was a Coast Guard commander during World War II. In his letters, he had some very choice negative words about General MacArthur that passed sensors. Good luck.

Answer 3

General Douglass Macarthur was one of the finest generals to walk the face of this earth. He was a great WWII general, and President Harry Truman in 1942 personally flew on a helicopter to Mac's location to fire him for not following orders. Mac didnt listen and continued his seige well into WWII until the war ended with the usage of the atomic bomb. General Macarthur was one of the most decorated war generals at his time, and won 2 Navy Crosses and 1 Purple Heart. His nickname was "blood and guts" Macarthur.

Answer 4

My dad had no used for him, at the begging of WWII, as the Japaneses approached Corridor, MacArthur will who misjudged the approached of the Japaneses, had all the artillery pointed in the wrong direction, so all was lost, instead of staying with his men, he saved himself. My father spend 3 years in a internment camp, and cussed MacArthur everyday