My report is on Douglass MacArthur. I chose to do my report on Mr. MacArthur
because he was a very important person in many wars. I chose to do my report on MacArthur because I wanted to learn more about his contributions to our nation.
Douglas MacArthur was one of three sons of Arthur MacArthur and Mary Pinkney. Arthur was a Lieutenant General and he was also awarded a Medal of Honor during the American Civil War. Douglas was born on January 26, 1880 in Little Rock Arkansas. He spent his younger years in New Mexico, then the family moved to Kansas and then to Washington DC where his father took a job in the Defense Department.
Douglas received his education from an Episcopalian school and the West Texas Military Academy. "In June 1899 he entered West Point Military Academy and graduated as valedictorian in 1903." [Curtin1]
In 1904 MacArthur became a lieutenant and was his fathers aide-de-camp in Japan. In 1906, he was aide-de-camp to President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1913, "he was appointed to the general staff under President Woodrow Wilson." [Curtin 2] In 1917 MacArthur had earned the rank of major.
MacArthur helped organize the "Rainbow Division." He was the division's chief of staff. "In 1918 he was promoted to brigadier general and he became commander of the Rainbow Division's 84th Infantry Brigade."[Curtin 3] His many exploits during the war won him many awards and honors. He was named the youngest two star general in the U S Army.
In 1922 MacArthur married Louise Crowell Brooks MacArthur a divorcee, he was married to her for six years. This marriage ended in divorce in 1929. MacArthur's mother lived with him for many years after the divorce.
After the European war he became a superintendent at West Point and he was the youngest person to ever hold this position. He continued doing this until 1922. He did a second tour of duty in the Philippines before returning to the United States in January of 1925 and being named commander of the 3rd Corps. Then he returned to the Philippines as a department commander.
When MacArthur returned to the United States in 1930, he was named Chief of Staff of the army by President Herbert Hoover. When he was 50, he was made a full general.
In 1932 MacArthur led the army against a group of 15,000 unarmed World War 1 veterans who were "camped in Washington to petition Congress for early payment of their service bonuses.
Early in his career, Douglas Macarthur was sent to the Philippines and Panama, and was promoted to the position of first lieutenant. In 1906, he joined his father and served under President Theodore Roosevelt. Later, he joined the mission of US occupation of Veracruz, Mexico. In World War 1, he prevailed as the commander of 42nd Division and by the end of the war, he was promoted to brigadier general. From 1919 to 1922, he became the youngest superintendent for West Point Military Aca...
At the time of his second retirement from the Army in 1943, he was 75 years of age, the oldest Army officer to serve on active duty during the war. In recognition of the achievements of his service in his fourth war, the Army awarded him with the Legion of Merit (Arrasmith, 2011).
Throughout MacArthur’s service to the United States, he went through various situations which tested him as a man, but because he had formed such a strong opinion of duty, honor, and country, he was able to overcome the troubling situations which led to his receiving of the Thayer Award. MacArthur’s ability to overcome dilemmas is one of the reasons he was the powerful leader he was, and to fully grasp the importance of his speech that shaped the future, one must know his past. At the age of twenty-three, MacArthur graduated from West Point with the highest grades the academy had seen in twenty-five years showing his determination to succeed. After moving
as 822nd Squadron Operation Officer and then Assistant 38th Bomb Group Operations Officer. Received a combat promotion to 1st Lieutenant 15 July 1945.
General George C. Marshall was Army Chief of Staff during World War II. General Marshall planned some important strategies against the Japanese. He was born on December 31, 1880, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and was educated at Virginia Military Institute. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry in 1901 and served in the Philippine Islands from 1902 to 1903. During World War I he served as chief of operations with the U.S. First Army in France. He became a colonel in 1918 and received wide military recognition for his handling of troops and equipment during the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne operations. From 1919 to 1924 he was aide to the U.S. commander in chief, General John Pershing, and during the next three years he saw service in China. Marshall taught in various army schools and organizations from 1927 to 1936, when he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
His remarkable abilities as a staff officer led to quick promotion. After serving as chief of police affairs of the Kwantung army (the Japanese army in China), he became its chief of staff in 1937. He was appointed vice minister of war in May 1938 and director of military aviation in December. In July 1940, as minister of war, he drafted new mobilization plans that strained diplomatic relations with the United States.
career. For his war efforts he was awarded two medals. One for honor and the
“After working for Wabash he wrote for acceptance in West Point, and was accepted in the fall of 1911. During his schooling in West Point he came to like military life and its style. He flew through college and ‘graduated on June 12, 1915’ (Omar Nelson Bradley General of the Army). “Bradley graduated 44th in his class as a 2nd Lt. of Infantry and was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia for” (Omar Nelson Bradley General of the Army).
After graduating in 1915, he became second lieutenant at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, where he met his wife, Mamie Doud. He began working at the Panama Canal as executive officer under General Fox Conner. This general was the one who helped Eisenhower go back to college at Command and General Staff College, graduating at the top of his class. Soon after, he began serving in multiple military posi...
Douglas Macarthur was born on January 26th, 1880 in Little Rock, Arkansas (Kelley 35). His parents were Arthur and Mary MacArthur. As a young man, Douglas MacArthur was moved around frequently to different parts of the United States where his father was stationed. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point where he received his commission as a 2nd lieutenant in the United States Army. He was valedictorian of his class of 93 at West Point (Kelley 39). He was promoted very quickly through the next few years and had a great deal of combat experience in several different conflicts, including World War I. Douglas served in the Philippines as major general, commanded the Department of the Philippines, and served in the U.S. as chief of staff of the Army (Wikipedia). In 1942 he was made the supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific and by 1945 had liberated the Philippines on the way to invading Japan. MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945, then led the occupation forces in the reconstruction of Japan (Wikipedia). After North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, MacArthur was put in charge of United Nations forces and successfully drove the invaders back (Wikipedia). General MacArthur wanted to push the enemy back and go into China to do so but was relieved of his command by President Truman before he could do so.
What: President Hoover ordered 1000 soldiers under the command of Gneral Douglas MacArthur and his aide, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, to rouse the veterans away
Clancy grew up with interests and intentions surrounding the military. He was born Thomas Leo Clancy, Jr. (“Tom” Web) on April 12, 1947 (Lansford 381) in Baltimore, Maryland (Byers 70). His parents both had occupations; his father was a mail carrier and his mother was a credit manager. Growing up, Clancy had a love for reading as he often read (“Tom” Web). He enjoyed reading science fiction and military related books (Lansford 382).
Douglas Francis MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880, at the Arkansas Barracks in Little Rock, Arkansas. His parents were Arthur MacArthur Jr. and Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur. His mother was often called by her nickname “Pinky”. Since her brothers both fought for the South in the Civil War, they refused to attend her wedding, which made her upset. Douglas was raised in a military family in the American Old West. He had two brothers: Arthur III and Malcolm. Even after Malcolm died of the measles in 1883, when Douglas was just 3 years old, the family succeeded to maintain a healthy relationship even though things wouldn’t be the same without Malcolm.
General Douglas MacArthur will forever be remembered for his famed Inchon landing in the Korean war, a piece of tactical genius which swung the tide of the war in favour of the United Nations (UN) and the South Koreans. However, what was his overall contribution to the conflict from the Inchon landing, to his dismissal from his role on April 11th 1951? While the Inchon landing was an unprecedented success, which very few could have the audacity to execute, its success was also the catalyst for the errors in judgement that would follow resulting in Chinese involvement in the war. Ultimately ending in the armistice on July 27th 1953, the Korean War had not been the success many had promised initially following the Inchon landing.
MacArthur, Douglas. “Duty, Honor, Country.” Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance. West Point, NY. 12 May, 1962.