Douglas MacArthur
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| Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army, United States Army | |
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| Born | 1880 |
| Died | 1964 |
Douglas MacArthur, a career officer in the United States Army, one of the great military strategists in World War II, and responsible for governing and rebuilding Japan after.
Early life
Douglas MacArthur was the third son of Arthur MacArthur, a senior officer in the U.S. Army and winner of the Medal of Honor for actions at Missionary Ridge during the American Civil War. His oldest brother, Arthur II (1876-1923), had a distinguished career in the U.S. Navy, seeing action in the Spanish-American War of 1898, the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War. Second son Malcolm was born in 1878, and died at the age of five, which left a mark that Douglas could never forget. "His premature death left a gap in my life which has never been filled," he would write some forty years later. [1]
Douglas was born into the Army at Fort Dodge, Arkansas on January 26, 1880, in a section of the base armory that had been converted to a hospital.
References
- Manchester, William. American Caesar, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA (1978).