The Tragic Death Of General Douglas MacArthur
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- General Douglas MacArthur remains one of the most consequential and controversial military figures in American history, having presided over a number of international conflicts in the mid-20th century. With an undeniable role in halting the expansion of post-world-war Communism, MacArthur nonetheless took part in human rights violations, also committing insubordination at key moments in different conflicts. His ambition appeared poised to carry him to America's highest office, but, as he said in his own words, old soldiers never die, they just fade away. MacArthur died at 84 decades ago, but historians still don't agree about how to place him in history. This is the tragic death of General Douglas MacArthur.
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What do you think about General Douglas MacArthur?
McCarthyism is alive and well unfortunately.
@@crankin1379 That’s funny, if it’s a joke!
If it’s not, well…
Overrated.
@@crankin1379 what does that have to do with MacArthur???
Not a good general, abusive one, never spent a night in Korea during Korean war(scared of being captured by PVA army of China).
Every filipino knows who General McArthur is , he's the guy who stated I shall return.
Yup!🤔
and he kept his word
@yoo jastle Would it be better if he died defending instead? And the American president would assign some general who knows nothing about philippines.
@yoo jastle MacArthur WANTED to remain and fight against the Japanese in the Philippines, but was ordered by President Roosevelt to retreat because knew if MacArthur was capture and probably killed by the Japanese, it would not only seriouly his his popularity, but destroy the United States's morale because remember, before, during and after the war until he was fired by Truman, MacArthur was not only the most popular General in the United States, but also the most powerful Republican politician at that point and if you think otherwise, I suggest getting your brain cells checked.
He wanted to use nukes on China during the Korean War. Glad Truman fired the elitist MacArthur.
To die of poor health age 84 is not a tragedy: it is normal.
His leadership was the tragedy.
@michael harrington
And he deserved worse, considering he was a war criminal.
@@MrUnkownUnknown And how many people have not committed a crime in their life or are in a way assisted in one,
Better then "car crash" that took Patton's life
He could meet yamashitta in the eternal the one he had hanged for not being everywhere to control his troops like Westmoreland at my lai!
I'm a Filipino and l respect highly Gen. Douglas McArthur for what he has promised to the Filipino people when he said "l shall return". To us that's more than a promise but a hope against Japanese oppression at that time. I salute the Old Soldier who never dies.
The Philippines could have been bypassed in the advance to Japan, Admiral Nimitz argued strongly against invading the Philippines. MacA won the argument in front of Pres Roosevelt and 1000's of Filipinos died needlessly. He had his good points but EGO was his driving force.
@@MrConan89 you could say that about all of the Nimitz campaigns in the Pacific. They were bloodbaths when they could have been bypassed.
USA / Philipines We were Great Allies then and Great Allies Now !
I don't know about other Filipinos, but in all of the Philippines History I learn from school, MacArthur is one of those that I didn't forgot, I clearly remember my teacher saying that MacArthur once said "I shall return".
And he had return .
Undoubtedly I have them marked as number two General the United States brilliant plus A little Luck.
MacArthur spent time growing up in the Filipine's my grandpa it's been a long time they're going to go over to he had nothing but good things to say about the Filipino people he said he said they are very good People
My grandpa had his ass on the line he loved the Filipino people he didn't said they until he passed from a broken hip
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To a good man who is a Republican as a he sighed at my grandpa's father's Death warrant who's at the VA and said Oh no he's old I won't kill him most ethical man my Grand father and a good man funnyI've ever met worked served
Retarded whole life
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Imagine if mc arthur conquered communism in china, we dont have a problem right now. There would be one korea not south and north. The man has an advance vision for the security of the future and the world. Salute for this General.
@Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus yea if only. If only workers rights never advanced past the 1940s and social democracy never took off. If only china stayed undeveloped and south korea still with a fascist dictatorship. If only colonialism never ended and famine and genocide were still common. That was would have happened if the soviet union was destroyed in the 40s
@Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus i would make a dig at your mother but she has clearly been through enough with her son being a roman empire stan. you are just cringe
Your right McArthur see the vision and calculate. He knew that China at that time was very poor easy to manipulate defeat communism. Meanwhile on the other hand. President Truman . Fear that Russia will help and escalate nuclear war .But General Macarthur knows Russians are bluffed. A poor country that time cannot afford the situation if it happens. Look what is happening now Russian war against Ukraine. Putins war. Talking boasting . Threatening for nothing. General MacArthur was ahead of his time manymany years Allied forces that time was powerful. A lot of resources communist groups are poor and cannot win the war.
Mac's Plan was to Nuke China....
@Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Mac and Pat met during WW-1 , In France...
As a filipino, He may have left us but never abandoned us. He came back to liberate my country.
Di nmn nya iniwan ang pinas inutusan sya na mag focus muna sa giyera sa australia
@@jjtzlofttv2390 gulo mo brad
@@DOI_ARTS Tama siya.nasa Australia siya noong WW2. Read history. At Ang famous I shall return niya is just politically. Puro siya pa Epal sa media.
@@bluemarshall6180 at least Hindi napako Yung promise nya
@@esdeath278 yes he atleast
McArthur will always be one of Philippines' heroes...
He is a hero I'm the Philippines ..Lt was a matter of egos.he was a great general .one of the greats from the West point academy
As a Filipino I regard him as a hero and I'm pretty sure for the Japanese too. He basically paved the way for what is now the modern Japan.
Yuck
MacArthur lost fewer men during his campaigns in the SW Pacific, than were lost in the Battle of the Bulge. Those who deplore his over active ego, may be right, but when he caught the enemy flat footed at Inchon, it was a stroke of genius. The way he resurrected Japan, after WWII, was probably the greatest achievement, by any American official, in our history.
MacArthur performed abysmally as the commanding general in his defense of the Philippines against the Japanese in 1941. He again performed badly when the under-equipped Chinese out-thought him near the Yalu in 1950 and he was lucky that Matthew Ridgway took command of the 8th Army just in time to save his skin. MacArthur played politics well in Japan but having too many blindspots as a general.
@@tvgerbil1984 You can pick and poke at any great general. But to single out the Philippines is laughable. the Philippines were written off before Pearl Harbor.
I do admire Matthew Ridgeway, but not to the denigration of MacArthur. I think you should delve into your subject a little deeper before becoming an authority.
@@thomassweeney1258 With over 150,000 men under his command during the Battle of the Philippines in 1941/42, it was one of the greatest defeat by any US general in history. He even managed to have half of his airforce destroyed on the ground by incoming Japanese bombers on the very first day despite receiving ample warnings from Pearl Harbor and Washington hours before the attack and from his own radar installation in the Philippines. He was sent to the Philippines five years before the war with a brief to organize the army to face just such an invasion but when the war started, everything simply fell into chaos. There were a long list of tactical mistakes by the famed general such as sending the weakest Filipino divisions to repel the Japanese bridgehead at Lingayen Gulf while holding back his tank force. A great general like Erich von Manstein could manage the battlefield even against superior enemy, MacArthur on the other hand simply fell apart.
It takes a big ego to do what he did, winning on a massive scale. War ain't for wimps or pansies.
@@tvgerbil1984
You are jealous.
In Times of War There Is No Subtitutes For Victory....Gen D.MacArthur
Those who want war , are the farthest from the conflict
MacArthur was one of only a handful in the entire history of the US military to rise to the rank of Five Star General, ie, General of the Army. A Brigadier General as you describe him is a one star general. After the Pacific war ended, and he took over control of Japan, he became revered by the people for his leadership in rebuilding the country. He was once described as a "Benevolent Dictator" in his leading its reshaping which probably says it best.
Unless I missed something the narrator says he was a Brigadier General at the end of World War One
he literally wrote the constitution for japan...after they surrendered...
john j pershing was a six star general...general of the armies...but never donned tha insignia...wore the general of the army instead...
MacArthur was Japan's last shogun the Japanese deeply respected him, I feel the same.
John J Pershing is the only 6 star General of the armies. 5 star generals Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and Henry H. Arnold.
"Old soldiers never die they just fade away"
MacArthur's post-war policies paved the way for a lasting friendship with Japan. An astounding accomplishment. For that he is rightfully honored and revered
he gave immunity to the psychopaths of the Asian holocaust that killed nearly 30 million people and made the Jewish holocaust look humane, this is not an honourable trait
Yeah u mean denying holocaust
Unforgettable "I shall return." Fulfillment of an honorable promise to us Filipinos. RIP sir.
For us filipinos, he still regarded as our liberator, an icon
Two books anyone should read: 1) MacArthur 'American Caesar" by Wm Manchester; & 2) MacArthur - 'American Warrior' Both are eye openers & gives you a far different look at the man. Besides attending West Point, his older brother attended Annapolis. One important observation: "No one wants peace MORE than a soldier."
You are precisely right. One other note. MacArthur said his greatest achievement was in reconstructing Japan. Not conquering Japan, or any other military thing he did.
Two other books to add to the list 3) The Coldest Winter. It’s about the Korean War (and MacArthurs handling of it) and 4) The General and the President about the conflict between Truman and MacArthur. Truman gave Mac way more leeway than any president ought to, and Mac took every inch that was given to him and quit a bit more because he thought he new better, and nobody on his staff was brave enough to disagree with him. He was a deeply flawed and vainglorious egomaniac who also happened to be a brilliant strategic thinker on his best days and a ruthless dictator on his worst. He’s certainly worthy of study and examination, but hardly worth celebrating once you know the story.
FastAndBulbous Yes, he is worth celebrating. One, his casualties were proportionally considerably less then those suffered by US troops in Europe. Second, his administration of Japan was, indeed, magnificent. There were issues, naturally, but an overall assessment by scholars who specialize in Japan is that he achieved far more than anyone thought possible. Just look at Japan today. A thriving democracy, and first rate economic power. Contemporary Japan could have a label, "Made by MacArthur" which would be pretty accurate.
@@normanbraslow7902 Sounds like an admission of weakness.
Mac was very good in self promotion and that is one example. I know a few Australian veterans who could not stand him, especially those who fought in Korea
The Philippines still love him.
Every Filipino still love Gen. McArthur.. big thanks to you General.
Love and respect! Salute!
He was brought back on Active Duty just before WW2 when he was 59 because of his knowledge and skill. This was at a time when the Army retired (kicked out) all officers over the age of 50.
His method of combat during WW2 was "Cut off the enemy's life line. Let em starve to death, better them than us." This method saved many American lives. He came up with a brillant plan
and saved the day from South Korea being over run. He was afterwards canned. I read that he told Johnson on his death bed not to go to Viet Nam. He probably realized the war would be a continuous tragic long drawn out never ending stale mate. About his ego, he justifiably deserved that. One of the all time great Americans. He devoted his life to the United States.
His father was a colonel before he was old enough to vote.
General Douglas MacArthur begged POTUS Lyndon Johnson not to get the U.S. involved in Vietnam. Advice that was not heeded.
President Kennedy asked retired general Douglas MacArthur for advice on what to do regarding Vietnam. Kennedy later summarized MacArthur’s advice as "Anyone wanting to commit ground troops to Asia should have his head examined". Kennedy went ahead anyway.
True: MacArthur was totally against unwinnable land wars, which Vietnam was. I believe he told JFK not to get involved in Vietnam.
McArthur knew all too well, after how brutally hard the Korean War was. We may have saved South Korea and contained the Communists, but that should have been a HUGE warning about future endeavors. Thankfully we had much more reliable allies there than in Vietnam.
Vietnam was a mistake, Johnson wanted Vietnam badly, to profiteer from it. I disagree that the war was unwinnable, it was unwinnable in the way we fought it. We beat Japan years before, and they refused to surrender. We drove the North Koreans back to give the South Koreans life without $#%^head communist's, Vietnam was winnable, because a retired Chinese General said that if we would of continued with the tet offensive for another 10 days, the NVA would of surrendered.
@@copperfish543 Winning the war would have required a land invasion of North Vietnam by the US. China would have felt threatened by this, and put its enormous army into the war. To reduce the number of US troops available for this fighting, North Korea would have initiated conflicts at the DMZ between north and south Korea, and US troops would have been required to deal with that. Do you believe the American people were willing to get into such a nightmare?
MacArthur was popular in the Philippines, specially for the old folks, but I believed another hero of WWII Pacific Theater was overlooked and it is Admiral Chester Nimitz and his sailors and marines.
Semper fi
Many Americans blame MacArthur for the bloody island hopping but it was Nimitz's idea.. Either way, they need to do that so they can force the Japanese out from those islands. All of them made a part for the liberation of the Philippines and East Asia
Nimitz was a madman. I loved that guy. Was a badass warrior. In Guadalcanal. All over the Pacific. 👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Macarthur, Douglas was also a World War 1 veteran and a decorated officer during that war.
Yes he was a bit egotistical, but he is a genius and a great military tactician, graduated at the top of his class at West Point. He even made Japan a much better country. He has done a great service. One of my favorite Generals.
Great reply. Most replies are thoughtless babble. MacArthur was a military genius as was Napoleon, neither was cut and dried. A true opinion is by necessity complicated.
A BIT egotistical? He was a malignantly narcissistic megalomaniac.
@@thomassweeney1258 we should not compare because napoleon wasnt just a general, he was an emperor, he had all the power.
They should had listened to him and continued into communist China just saying
such a magnificent tactician that he lost in Korea and was forced all the way back into the south of Korea, at this point the Chinese had initially won the war so in MacArthur's humiliating and disgraceful defeat he wanted to nuke China which is insanity to say the least. He also insisted on getting his own way in every battle and either lost the battle or caused enormous and unnecessary casualties, you should do some proper reading up on MacArthur he did some terrible things even to the point of giving the Japanese that were guilty for the Asian holocaust that killed nearly 30 million people and made the Jewish holocaust look humane complete immunity and they were never held accountable for there brutal crimes.
This got it wrong about the reason MacArthur was fired. It was not for going into North Korea. Intercepts of MacArthur communicating with other governments and wanting to go to war with China. A letter read on Capitol Hill was the last straw. It was critical of Truman's policies. Lots more things involved. He had Truman's approval to go to the Yalu.
He was 84 at the time of his passing. Lived a better than avg lifespan.
MacArthur was in Australia during the time when everyone was expecting a Japanese invasion, and in my opinion is regarded highly in Australia.
Aussies who know anything about his conduct at the time mostly despise him.
Macarthur is not highly regarded in Australia, he put his headquarters in Melbourne, might as well have put his headquarters in Antarctica.
Macarthur and Blamey were cowards whose poor leadership led to the death of many troops unnecessarily, especially in Papua New Guinea.
Mcarthur was a War Hero especially in WW2 and The Pasific War
FUN FACT -Terowie is a dot on the map in South Australia ( population 131) but it has the distinction of being the place where he famously said " I shall return". He was on a train and they had to stop there whilst he was being interviewed. The town has lived off the event ever since !!!
he is the greatest general he liberated the phil and other countries in asia he is popular here in the phil recognizing him as a great hero honoring and remembering him so we have town and hiway named after him like mcarthur hiway in luzon and a monument in palo leyte when he fulfill his promise he stated by the grace of mighty god i have return, i salute you gen youre the great
Extremely interesting how at least an equal number of people dislikes and admires General MacArthur. I personally admire him very much. He was a good Officer, besides being an exceedingly educated and cultivated Man. He was truly charismatic and no boot leaker, and always seemed to find the best words for the most grave moment.
I certainly always disliked the coarse Patton or the incompetent and cocky Montgomery. Unlike the Wehrmacht or the USN, the US Army never had many brilliant Officers; MacArthur was one of the few.
What's so tragic about his death? I find it way worse to send tanks against veterans protesting for their hardly earned money.
This guy gets it
People need to read MacArthur's history more. Theyll be disgust by him.
You nailed it captain, many of those bonus campers were killed under his command. He volunteered for that duty as well. We should never name streets after the horse's a--. How he got into command in WW2 is beyond me. FDR hated the POS. Truman did too. Truman had the balls to can the asshole. They should take that statue of him at West Point and use it for target practice. The more you learn of what he actually did do and not do, the more you see this POS as a military liability, not an asset in any sense of the word.
@@lars277 You brain dead commenters need to do a little more reading, in fact, change that to a lot more.
@@lars277 Truman became one of the most unpopular presidents after he fired McCarthur. Large crowds hung Truman in effigy. If he could have run for a 3rd term, he would have been beaten so bad that he would have looked like a 3rd party candidate. Truman appeased the Communists.
When he was in the Philippines during WW II, he was like a "God" or savior according to my grandparents
Ha ha ha ha ha ha I was a jarhead Sergeant in the late 60's and never had to buy a dinner or drink the 5 days I was there. Felt like god status to me.
A savior who ran away from battle. Ahahahaha.... Real coward.
@@silentwatcher1455 who?
@@silentwatcher1455 sadly, Franklin Roosevelt didn't do sh1t to fortify the archipelago. Imagine the joy of the Japanese if "dugout doug" had never left and been killed by them
@Darrell McCall
You're wrong, USA has a unique kind of colonization. My parents lived with it in the early 1900's. They loved USA, when they left my father was even singing both the USA and Philippine national anthem by our window. That's how they were taught in school and he was already a history teacher at that time. Nothing bad about the USA governing our islands. Until now the universities, hospitals and government buildings built during the USA time are still there. See WVSU, UP, Iloilo National High school, Iloilo government offices. Most of all the English language and the form of government was carried over. See those mansions in Iloilo that was built in the 1920's apparently Filipinos had a good life while USA economy was down at that time. The Commies are desperate to win the Philippines. It's a reality now and there's no more McArthur to save those islands.
I was met some veterans who served with him the Philippines and they had nothing good to say about him.
he ran and pretended it was heroic
@@petperthecommenter3364 i was ordered back to america
FDR needed someone who knew how to lead a fight against the Japanese, so he called MacArthur away. MacArthur unwilling to leave his men saw no choice, but to leave but he also made promise to return to them. He even insisted on retaking the Philippines before heading towards Japan bcoz he wanted to liberate his men quickly.
He abandoned his army in the Philippines. He was known as dug out Doug for running away.
In the 60's, dying at age 84 was pretty impressive. Nothing tragic there, except, perhaps, for the possibility that he neglected to have himself stuffed and mounted somewhere.
🐲that’s 😁
US life expectancy in 1964 was 70.14, and the number included women.
What? Are you kidding?
Good one.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Big salute to you general
All I can say is had McArthur been allowed to pursue the war from Korea into China we would not be dealing with the bull crap we’re having to deal with today.
And you think nuclear Russia would have allowed that? They could have gone nuke or just taken Europe
@@John-lv1zq 러시아는 50년에 핵무기를 시험하였다. 그래서 대량으로 핵무기를 보유할 수 없었을 것이고, 폭격기가 준비되어있지 않았다.
@@John-lv1zq J. Stalin was calling North Korea's shots during the that war.
Thanks for another interesting and informative video
Thank you for watching!
With the help of God and a few good Marines, MacArthur returned to the Philippines….
Didn’t the army do the most to liberate the Philippines?
I love your videos man
He was our hero here in philipines, Gen. Douglas Mc Arthur, once said I shall return., and he did.
He abandoned his second in command and his soldiers and left them to die at the hands of the Japanese. The Bataan Death march soon followed. The promise to return which was totally unnecessary and caused thousands of American and Filipino additional lives. When he returned, the Philippines were no longer of any strategic value to the war effort. The focus of the pacific campaign was not to save the Philippines but to Island hop all the way to Japan itself. Eventually MacArthur was fired by the President of the United States of America.
@@mannyg9059 That was during the Korean War and it was Harry Truman who became unpopular, not McCarthur. As for the Philippines, Roosevelt ordered him back to Washington. He didn't want one of his top generals killed right after Pearl Harbor.
Some may say that MacArthur was a bad General, some may say that MacArthur was a good General, it is undeniable that MacArthur was a great soldier and especially a great person.
Thank you Gen. Douglas Mc Arthur! Salute to you sir ♥️🇵🇭🙌🏼 Much love and gratutude from the people of the Philippines
If they didnt remove mcarthur...No China today...
Truman was Commander in Chief. MacArthur didn’t believe he was subordinate to anyone. Truman took care of that quick.
When MacArthur was made military governor of Japan harry Truman said that this Was is the only time in history When one deity would report to another
Truman lost the next election due to his unfortunate handling of General McArthur. Although people wanted McArthur to run for president he declined.
@@vincenorman9291 Not that I remember it personally, but HT didn't loose an election. Everyone counted him down and out in 1948 but he survived. He chose not to run for a second full term for various reasons.
@@vincenorman9291 lol Truman didn't lose election, everyone counted him out and they thought Dewey was gonna win
@@vincenorman9291 Truman did not lose election ,where did you get that from ? .He won in 1948 he did not run in 1952 .
MacArthur should have been relieved of his command on 12/8/41 when, despite the fact that Pearl Harbor was already bombed, he did nothing to prevent his army air corps from being decimated while still on the ground at Clark AFB in the PI. Incredible ego, not backed up by real leadership. The value of "returning" to the PI was dubious at best, and probably could have been skipped, like some other Japanese held islands. The true hero and leader of the Pacific war was Nimitz.
With so many troops stationed at PI, they cant just bypass it and also, what about the other pows who were left behind?
The US were obligated to liberate and return to the PI because at that time it was an American territory and there were many POW's and American civilians interned by the Japanese.
@@countercultureexcesstvbrai7386 What about the POWs in Japan and elsewhere? The war would have been over sooner and countless lives saved if MacArthur had stayed on Corrigedor to be captured with his supposedly beloved troops in 1942. Nimitz had no overwhelming ego to protect and was free to fight the war as a true leader should.
"We have our tails in the air".
@@Hopeless_and_Forlorn What advantage would the Allies gain if Macarthur is captured and taken as a POW?
You really need to improve your research efforts.
You say that President Eisenhower signed a peace treaty with North Korea. That is not remotely correct. A cease-fire was hammered out, but there has never been a peace treaty. As a result, the Korean War has not officially ended.
There are other problems. This one happens to be the most glaring
It was an ARMISTICE not a peace treaty that was signed, which ended hot war.
Trump ended the war oddly enough
@@lorddude123 not even close, the North Koreans are still bolstering their nuclear arms.
@@cl570 trump ended the Korean war
@@lorddude123 Proof?
WTF! He was an old soldier , just faded away.
No furniture would be left behind!
General MacArthur always on the hearth of Filipino solder, he serve field Marshall armed forces of Philippine, the only non Pilipino general, general of the general,
When MacArthur speaks, Pilipino solder listen with high moral.
MacArthur artillery killed 100000 in Manila
@arliemac tv Manila was almost entirely destroyed by artillery. This was done to reduce American casualties.
No I eas not alive. However I did receive first hand information from my father a LCMD who was present. Were you present? I woukd love to hear your personal story
Who was more of a hero MacArthur or Rizal?
MacArthur possessed probably the finest military mind America ever produced. And Truman's biggest mistake was firing MacArthur instead of allowing him to deal with China appropriately. Had Truman not epicly blundered on the matter, we'd all be a *lot* safer today. Thank you for the video! :)
In a democracy, authority lies with people who delegate it to their elected office holders and not the army and their generals. If generals override that authority once, they do it again and again because they hold the guns. Truman was a great man, he had the foresight and courage to act.... as always.
There's nothing tragic about the death of a 84 year old from multiple failure of organs. It's only natural.
People do die. MacArthur was 84. What was tragic about his death? Nothing. And despite his run-in with Truman, he had an outstanding military career, oversaw the post-War revival of Japan, ticker tape parade in NYC, etc. (The one irony: he wasn't buried at West Point.)
He choked, 9hrs.after hearing about Pearl his aircraft were still on the ground because he knew then that the navy couldn’t save him “making a “gallant” stand and all his “smoke and mirrors” had disappeared, petty because he tried to block Gen. Wainwright getting an MH , because in his (Doug’s)opinion it diminished his (Doug) MH, Wainwright stayed and surrendered with the troops and hardship, after taking over a failed command. Doug was going to get out anyway you don’t let a former Chief of Staff fall into enemy hands .
Coward...
Thank you
Most don't know MacArthur fired Eisenhower when Eisenhower was a colonel working for him. MacArthur thought him incompetent. Talk about karma...
That's not true. I wish you people wood stop reading the back of your Rice Krispe boxes and do some homework.
아이젠하워가유럽연합군을 지휘하게 된 것은 맥아더의 추천이었습니다.
@@audiojang768yeah really
No one has explained why after Dec 8 1941 he was not relived when the military in Philippines was caught by surprise even after attack on Pearl Harbor the day before. Yet commanders at pearl were relived?
Never understood that who did he know or what did he know to not be relieved of his command
@@erniedefrates9219 High enough up inner power group.
Who is here after General bajwa farewell speech where he mentioned the General Douglas quote .
This guys held remarkably records in victorious wars, but against Chinese he was numb
he was stupid .... if he read " red star over china " of edgar snow, he would n't have made such error !
first lesson : never understimate your challenger.
@@poilochien Excellent informative book - let me recommend "The Last Empress" by Hannah Pakula - its on Madam Chiang Kai-Shek. Also there is a good biography on General Stillwell.
@@buffalogal9139 thanks a lot .
I got his stuff at home in a foot locker. His obituary was half the news paper.
He's the elvis presly of the Pacific 🔥☝️
Grew up 4 miles from The Pentagon...my father took me through the reviewing line as he lay in state in the U. S. Capitol Rotunda as a 10 year old...my mom's brother was on MacArthur's PT boat as he evacuated Philippines early 1942 as an Army fighter pilot
Much misinformation here in this short clip, fact and fiction mixed. He did husband his troops and equipment during WWll losing less men in the entire Pacific war than in a single battle against Hitler.
Right and pigs do fly.
A very arrogant man who defied orders on many occasions. Jmo
MacArthur was hired by the Commonwealth of the Philippines in the 1930's to train Filipino army.
Matatan.🔥🐎🔥. Ribirin HS,
Excellent documentary well done,
A hero image for Filipinos
Macaurthur was a product of what happens when priviliged military families prop up a son. Read a biography that pulls no punches. An example:
The Japanese attack on the Phillipines (where dugout doug was in charge) happened 8 hours after Pearl Harbor, yet, American forces were caught by surprise. Much later, when doug was being evacced from the Phillipines he not only took his family and staff, but his furniture as well. How many soldiers unnecessarily lost their lives because they didn't fit on a boat filled with furniture?
More bullshit. The only "furniture" was a mattress. It was junked at the end of the trip on the PT boat.
You want him to rather stay instead? 8 hours is not enough for MacArthur to get more troops in order to counter attack the Japanese even if he knew what would've happened after 1 second of pearl harbour attack the outcome would still be the same,MacArthur would flee.
Yolk He did not "flee". FDR ordered him to leave.
@@yolk6867 A good general is a brave general and never ran away from battle. Only cowards ran away. Brave general is Gen. Jonathan Wainright, he stayed in the Philippines, and became POW until Japanese surrender. Another brave officer is Lt. Col. Hal Moore. He stayed with his men until the end of the battle of Irang valley in Vietnam. He stayed put with his men defying orders from higher up to abandon the battle. Salute to these two brave men who never ran away from battle.
@@silentwatcher1455 The US cannot allow her top general to be captured. Evacuation is necessary unless the general can be ordered to commit suicide.
He and Eisenhower warned JFK about the military industrial complex. He sat down with him and told him about Vietnam and said the best way to fight it is to bomb the north and send in combat troops to mop up the south. Norman Schwarzkopf did the same exact same tactic in the Gulf War and it just proved that Mcarthur was right all along.
If MacArthur was in charged of the European Campain? it would have ended 18 months earlier. He would gotten Monty replaced for being too passive and the Russians would not enter Germany because The U.S, The Brits, The French, The Canadians, The Aussies and The Kiwis would be accepting the Nazi's Unconditional surrender. And if wasn't relieved of his command in the Korean War, Korea would have been a unified country since the 50's and the Chinese would not have been what they are today.
We thank Gen Mc Arthur for fulfilling his promised I SHALL RETURN
MacArthur lived at Whitemarsh Hall with his first wife Louise Cromwell.
MacArthur was OK when he did not have to report to anyone, as when he was the Emperor of Japan after WW2. Otherwise, he was a soldier who disobeyed Presidents Hoover's and Truman's orders. If he were a Private, he would have been locked up in Leavenworth, as he deserved!
Very Good!...
My grandfather served in the Pacific and had nothing nice to say about him leaving his men behind in the Philippines, but making sure to take his furniture. Pops said Macarthur was an egomaniac who only cared about headlines.
I've heard many veterans say the same thing.
Yes he left Philippines but he didnt leave by himself, he was ordered by FDR. In fact MacArthur didnt want to leave his men behind. Thats why he also made a promise to return. Some are saying that the 1944 Philippines campaign wasnt necessary to head to Japan, but MacArthur insisted that they liberate Philippines as well, one of the reasons is also to liberate the thousands of American POWs held there. But yes he had been egotistical too, but he also cared about his men.
@Steve Wolcott yeah but he could have left his furniture
D Halberstam has a great book on the Korean war, I'm sure you would enjoy. It gives one an informed opinion on the Korean war.
Yup..egotistical glory seeking POS..
Doug was all about Doug.
MacArthur didn't disobey orders regarding the bonus marchers. It was the assistant secretary of war that withheld critical orders from Hoover and directed MacArthur to clear out the Bonus marchers.
MacArthur didn't "escape" from the Philippines he was ordered out by President Roosevelt who didn't want such a high ranking soldier to fall into Japanese hands.
MacArthur was insubordinate in WW2, as well. Orders from the Joint Chiefs were to store all supplies at Corregidor and retreat there if needed. MacArthur was so sure that his superior training of the Phillipine army would achieve victory that he kept his supplies distributed throughout the country. Consequently, Corregidor fell after a few months, rather than a year or more.
Mac flew to Taipei meeting "Chiang KaiShek" in 1950, that was the reason that widened the Korean war! Truman,Atkinson were looking at the chance to depose him! Mac made a joke about he run the administration in occupied Tokyo was better than Truman's in Washington, that irked Truman very much!
My uncle was a marine in WW2 and he hated McArthur for peleliu. I think he was over rated. He screwed up at the beginning of the war in the Philippines, but got the Metal of Honor for taking a boat ride with his wife and son(who was 5 at the time). The attack on peleliu was not necessary. After inchon the goal was to race across Korea to the east coast and cutoff the N.Korean army and destroy it and end the war, he decided to stop at Seoul and let them escape so he could attack North and destroy communism he was fired for complaining to the press that he wasn't allowed to use nuclear weapons.P.S. if you do the same thing as a child how is that deserving the Medal of Honor? His Metal should be voided!
The inaccuracies, ignorance, and venom disclosed in so many comments below remain outside the boundaries of reasoned debate.
Veterans certainly have reason to not like Doug but I think those who hate him because of his retreat from the Philippines are wrong and didn’t quite grasp the situation. MacArthur intended to stay and accept his fate along with his family. As much as people might have hated him, he was still the most experienced general at the time and would be of much more use not in a POW camp. So once the orders to leave for Australia came in from FDR he accepted them (shocking I know).
I don’t think he was a perfect man or a great General but he certainly deserves credit for some ballsy operations like Incheon. Then again, the reason why we hear so many bad things (some well deserved) is because his ego was certainly that of an entitled Prince and he did piss off the wrong people.
I have talked with a lot of men who were actually there. Never heard one positive thing about dugout dug.
Then, after studying ww2 history, I have come to the conclusion that he cost a lot of lives unnecessarily. Nimitz plan was way better than McArthur's. Fortunately, we were big enough to do both. Island hop and win the war while doug liberated his San Miguel business
@Steve Wolcott been busy building a bridge. So. You were there? Like the men I talked to? What about the state of readiness of Clark field he was responsible for on December 8 th? When his air commanders begged him to get the planes up and instead got destroyed on the ground. Or redeploying the Garrison but leaving the food and ammo stores behind? I can name more but go ahead and chew on that awhile
@Steve Wolcott I'm not contesting anything. I have my opinion just like everyone else on here. And I will say again. My opinion is based on what I heard from men who were actually there. You still haven't answered my question about what your opinion is based on. We're you there? Don't evade
@Steve Wolcott evade
@Steve Wolcott some of us are old enough to have talked with them while they were still fairly young. Evade, deflect, name-call. Not real intelligent debate. Better watch out who your calling fool
@Steve Wolcott yep. Easiest way FDR could have gotten him out of the way and keep him from doing anymore damage
America's greatest 5 star general, Douglas MacArthur was defeated by a Chinese Field Marshal by the name of Peng Dehuai in the Korean War. China during that time was an impoverish country but yet could defeat MacArthur. Douglas is really overhype with no real substance and capabilities.
As Taliban did in Afganistan
MacArthur wanted to nuke China during the Korean War. Be thankful that Truman stopped him.
As VietCong did in Vietnam
@@reynaldoflores4522 so Chinese wil be greatfull to MacArthur
@@reynaldoflores4522 Truman also knew that Russia will nuke America if they ever dare use nuclear bombs indiscriminately. This proof my point that Douglas is nothing really without Naval, Airforce, nuclear power. Fight a conventional war and Douglas will easily be destroyed.
All pilipino knows this general. I SHALL RETURN. Thank you general greetings from all the Filipino's
Thanks Gen. McArthur. From Filipino-American.
Every South Korean, except the commie lovers, is grateful to General MacArthur for saving South Korea from North Korea's aggression. We will be forever grateful.
Sending tanks towards veterans wanting their long overdue compensation from World War I. MacArthur, that was the Great Depression. What do you least expect?
I know this is a super short video so you can't go into much detail, but leaving out the Japanese occupation completely is pretty huge. It was one of the few high points in his controversial career. For whatever reason, his strategy of leaving the Emperor alone, reinforcing Japanese institutions rather than imposing American ones, and (Unfortunately) incredibly strict anti-communist policies ended up fast-tracking Japanese recovery and turning Japan into a very strong US ally.
"General Douglas MacArthur is one of the greatest Americans who have ever lived" LBJ
Good ole' Dugout Doug! You know what they say: "Only the good die young." And his death in hospital, at the tragically young age of 84, proves it.
ROFLMAO!!!
Nice sarcastic one my man!!!
Did I hear him say that Eisenhiwer was McArther's subordinate...?
They were equal. But Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander
When he was in the Phillipines in the 30s he was in charge of the Army there and Eisenhower was one of his officers.
McArthur was superior before Eisenhower, and he's 10 years older than Ike
They are referring to World War I where Eisenhower was MacArthurs aid
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I'm a fan here in the Philippines 🌴
In his essay The First Atom Bomb the writer Marcel Juno tries to write down his experience àfter visiting the then us general Dauglas McArthur.From that essay I came to know that Mr.Arthur was not a war-monger,rather he was sad to think of the horrors of the destructive warfare.
He liked to see that the recording of his beach landing was done to his concept of grandeur perfection. If what he saw wasn't to his liking, the whole party of actual people had to redo the landing operation again for the sole purpose of recording to his liking as if in a movie scene take
His aides always told the photographers to shoot from a lower angle...That way he would look larger than life majestic. Really a narcissist, but a great soldier and military leader.
If Truman had of allowed Mac to continue into China...we would be living in a very different world.
How? A land war in China? That would have made Vietnam look like a picnic
@@weirdshibainu And Afghan as well.
Too bad. The world would've become a better place.
@@reynaldoflores4522 It is not healthy to appeal to fantacy.
Unlikely. The chance for us to beat the Chinese communist would’ve come in 1946/47 when the Nationalist still had the momentum and foothold for US troops to land.
Not sure dying at age 83-84 falls under the definition of tragedy. I’ve never understood how MacArthur received a free pass for the disaster in the Philippines December 7. Careers went up in smoke after Pearl Harbor, but not his.
I appreciate your efforts in producing this video! Well done in my opinion.
Yes, MacArthur saved the Philippines. And yes, his organizing & directing the “D-Day” style landings at Inchon aided the Allies in pushing the North Koreans back to the Yaloo River - from which maybe he should have retreated in-part to keep the Chinese from entering the war. However I cannot get it out of my head that he was such an arrogant 🫏🕳 for what he did to his fellow WW 1 veterans during that benefits demonstrations / fiasco. We have seen worse in more recent years, yet WHERE WERE THE AUTHORITIES then?!? Letting their cities BURN!! 🔥 Why didn’t they use MacArthur style tactics?!?
What's tragic about dying at 84…