Douglas MacArthur

to launch a full-on attack. Knowing this, General Douglas MacArthur aimed to protect and defend the Filipino people against a potentially devastating Japanese invasion (Janda 190). This major defensive plot against the Japanese became what is known today as the Battle of Bataan—the “greatest surrender in American military history” (Conroy 58). Numerous factors contributed to the inevitable defeat, including the absence of the Allied General MacArthur, the pitiful condition of the soldiers, and…

General MacArthur was commanding the Southwest Pacific forces and his primary focus was to move north into the Philippines as Admiral Nimitz approached from the east with his Central Pacific force. With weight of the United States Pacific force approaching the Philippines…

Ww1 speech I am general Douglas MacArthur, as I stand here I see brave young men with the courage to do anything, This speech is to all the young souls leaving home for the sake of good against the bad, and tell other young boys that there will be no win to a war without sacrifice and murderous killing. Though in bad times we rely on ourselves we still grow like a gasp of air from an exhaling body, but…

The day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941, the Japanese began invading Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Within a month, Manila was captured and the U.S. - Filipino Army quickly started to run out of necessary supplies needed for survival. People who are educated enough to know what the Japanese did back in the 1940’s have the mindset of them being cruel and vicious people. However, the Japanese are not as violent and brutal as they were in the Philippine Bataan Death…

The question explored is “To what extent did Douglas MacArthur contribute in writing of the Japanese constitution?”. To answer the question, the investigation on MacArthur’s role in the occupation of Japan after the Second World War and the construction of the Japanese constitution were carefully examined, using both official documents and secondary sources such as works by historians and biographical articles by journalists. While the work of MacArthur as the lead role of the occupation will be…

Operation Watchtower provides an exceptional reference to illustrate American commanders’ application of operational art in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) during World War II. This paper analyzes the roles of Admiral Earnest J. King and Major General Alexander Vandegrift as operational artists during planning and execution of Operation Watchtower. Their understanding of the link among lines of operation, decisive points, operational reach, culmination, and risk directly contributed to…

Douglas MacArthur was a great and inspirational leader that fought in the first and the second world war as well as the Korean war. He became a general almost at the start of his military career for his services of the U.S military. He is easily an inspirational leader in the way he did his duties in his military life with his fullest ability. He did what he said he would do and he made sure it was done. Douglas MacArthur is an inspirational leader in what he did in the military and for how he…

Douglas Macarthur was a general who studied for years on how to lead an army and ended the Second World War. Thesis: Douglas MacArthur was a good man who was dedicated, courageous, loyal, and last but not least he was brave. He went to West Point for 4 years and had the highest academic record in the history of West Point. Douglas was a brave man. “Despite advance warning, the Japanese invasion of December 1941 badly defeated MacArthur's forces in the Philippines.” “MacArthur was determined to…

During the the Douglas Macarthur speech about “American policy in the Pacific” Macarthur speech was his decisions about the war-even they were against truman ( A.K.A President truman). The reasoning behind this is just because he was trying to avoid the third war. The reason why I say this because in the speech “American policy in the pacific” the three thing that he state about how he is right about what is he said is that he was in the WWI and WWII, he was the president of west point and…

general Douglas Macarthur is a well known American hero for all of his contributions to our past wars. Macarthur was awarded the highest military award, The Congressional Medal of Honor, for his services. He gave his speech “Duty; Honor; Country” to the cadets of West Point Military Academy on his last day as an instructor there on May 12, 1962. Macarthur had graduated from West Point at the top of his class in 1903, so he had a deep emotional connection to all the cadets there. Macarthur…