Men. When Douglas MacArthur took over command of the Army in 1930 he was assuming charge of a failing concern. Its personnel totaled 129,903 officers and men, less than half the number approved by ...

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 Mexico, where his father ...

Douglas MacArthur ... U. S. army, Far East. Mr. Truman's order was effective "at once." Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the U. S. Eighth army in Korea and MacArthur's personal choice ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Douglas MacArthur is a General for the U.S. Army with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1952 Speech. Appearances by Title:c. July 7 ...

Douglas MacArthur also were nominated three times ... a path that his father and four of his uncles -- all of whom became Army paratroopers -- forged, Howard enlisted in the military in 1956.

Of all the great American captains of World War II, none remains more controversial than General Douglas MacArthur ... the huge Chinese Red Army across the Yalu River. MacArthur for the most ...

O n April 5, 1964, General Douglas MacArthur died from kidney and liver diseases at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Georgia Ave. The general was 84 years old. He had been hospitalized for ...

The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. "MacArthur" begins in 1942, following the fall of ...

Douglas MacArthur as he left public office ... At his April 19, 1951, farewell address to a joint session of Congress, MacArthur, quoting an old U.S. Army ballad, concluded, “Old soldiers ...