The Tragic Death Of 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).

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!

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.

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 Our VA and Dick Cheney said we're trying to not break the budget while my Grand Father came home in 1946 and refrigerator's Up 40 stories high Chicago Illinois 60949. I want to say something about Richard Channy President Bush's Conservative VP he's got a daughter who's a Democratic that's fine but runs Lise Cheney who lost her seat she lost her congressional seat because she acted just like dad an entitled ass. I would say this to miss Cheney she's the one that said she's gay and she's not gay she just wants to live off old family money and not marry. This way she's a failure this is personal cuz you used to buy that paper everyday she lost money you're in here out check out and check it out. She didn't YES USA TODAY what's so special about the chain you said he can get a new heart from an eighteen-year-old kid but they can't put two Medical screws in my Grandpa My dad then let him die from profaphol In ICU..I've had four friends die including .My Dad from a fractured hip again 2 screws.I have to say Richard Channy was so lucky to receive a heart so fast because he smoked and Drank heavily. I am happy he will see how his heavy handed BS and lies Cheney wanted to to kill have Edward Snowden killed when Snowden Ran to Russia why because the Russians are better treated than we Are and that case on Edward Snowden was Cheney had pushed through through Congress and our Senate and The President was President Bush he's going to sign it no matter if you likes it or not any news that he created what's called Fascistism 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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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

@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...

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 !

@@MrConan89 Totally incorrect. Many of the islands in the Central Pacific could have been bypassed and were taken under the watch of Nimitz. Marines paid an appalling price. The PI could not have been bypassed. It remained an American protectorate and there were still Americans and Filipinos imprisoned there and fighting in the bush. MacArthur made the right call.

Operation Orange Operation Orange 3 # defence of the philippines

Yuck

You are absolutely correct!

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.

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.

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

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

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?

Those who want war , are the farthest from the conflict

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. 👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Not sure about being highly regarded. Used up the Australian soldiers and when the push came to take the Japanese Islands he completely left the Australian's out of it. He wanted the glory all to himself.

🐲that’s 😁

US life expectancy in 1964 was 70.14, and the number included women.

What? Are you kidding?

Good one.

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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.

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 .

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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.

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?

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.

Didn’t the army do the most to liberate the Philippines?

Coward...

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

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.

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 .

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?

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?

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..

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

best clerk I ever had'....DM

Right and pigs do fly.

@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

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.

ROFLMAO!!! Nice sarcastic one my man!!!

그것은 일본군이 한국 등 동남아시아의 청소년을 강제로 태평양의 많은 섬에 전투병으로 배치했기 때문입니다.

No doubt

a whole town named after him in the Philippines.Mcarthur,leyte. And a celebration called leyte landing every year october 21

I'll pass.

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.

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.

People believe he destroyed his girl friend, a Filipina starlet who he kept from his Mother. Well… Worse, he was able to “liberate” the gold ( worth gazzillions)after hanging Yamashita & water boarding the chauffeur. Then he shared some of the loot with the Meiji empire & the bodyguards( later, the LDP) while forever absolving them all of war crimes. The rest of the loot went into beautifying America and waging war for the next 70 years. ( See GoldWarriors by Peggy& Sterling Seagrave. A great read)

He couldn't follow orders.

He was responsible for the tokyo trials...British Vice admiral Bruce Fraser even argued that if Japan wasn't held to the same extent as Germany then there wouldn't be justice for the Americans who died in the pacific.

What you are repeating is nonsense.

Truman was jerk, he (Truman kept the Seventh Fleet stationed off the coast of Taiwan figuring the Mainland Chinese wouldn't attack. Instead, Mao moved his armies north to back the No. Koreans & moved the Americans back down the peninsula.

He had his moments of brilliance though, Inchon for example. Mark Clark by comparison was absolutely pathetic.

I'm afraid Admiral King and Admiral Nimitz would disagree with you. The left flank of their push had to be cleared, and that meant taking the Philippines. .

@@normanbraslow7902 You might want to delve further into the ongoing conflicts between Nimitz and MacArthur regarding the strategy for the Pacific War. Air and Submarine forces could have cut off the Japanese in the Philippines just as they did elsewhere, and taken those troops out of the war without the total destruction of Manila and the massive civilian casualties that went with it. Admiral King hated MacArthur, and made no secret about it.

@@thunderbird1921 I have to wonder what it would have been like for Clark if he didn't have to clean up MacArthur's mess