Gen. Douglas MacArthur "dug out dug"

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I sense a disturbance in the force. Someone is coming...

No I'm not. But willing to bet she is/was a crack whore skanky hoe arse biatch

Buddy of mine's grandfather LINK served under him in Korea and apparently thought he was pretty much the worst human being alive.

I always liked his flair, though.

I agree he was overrated and agree with most of what you said. However, he only left the Philippines on the direct order of the President himself. The reasons he was ordered out was (1) FDR wanted him in Australia to command what would they thought would be the defense of Australia and later the American counterpunch from the south once the Japanese advance had been stopped and (2) FDR did not want to give the Japanese the propaganda victory of capturing one of our highest ranking officers.

He got himself awarded a MoH for the biggest defeat of WWII.

It is scary that MacArthur was almost given the authority to launch nuclear weapons on China during the Korean War.

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FDR wanted him in Australia to command what would they thought would be the defense of Australia and later the American counterpunch from the south

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And that's BS too. FDR and G. Marshall wanted him somewhere out of the way... at the time they thought Australia was the least threatening place to send him.

If it wouldn't have been for his popularity (due to his own propaganda) he would have been shitcanned and out of the war completely after his frick up in the Philippines.

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Ok, Darth... now let's get into WHY FDR wanted him out. Let's discuss his complete and utter failure at defending the Philippines in the first place.

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You're exactly right. He did fail to defend the Philippines even though, counting Filipino forces, he had more men under his command than did General Homma for the Japanese. Although I will say his forces were woefully under-equipped comparative to the Japanese, especially in armor & artillery. And on top of that, while the Japanese could resupply their forces, MacArthur was totally cut off from any resupply.

Still, he squandered basically his entire air force on the first day of the war when he allowed the Japs to catch virtually all his aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip on the ground, which to me of all his mistakes is the most inexcusable considering the hours warning he had to get ready.

Also, In my opinion he fell back to his final, last ditch stand position on the Bataan peninsula too fast and allowed much of his supplies to fall into the Japanese hands. He could have fell back in a much more orderly fashion, conserving his men and supplies. But he didn't. And in the end, I'm not sure it would have made much difference anyway seeing how the US had no relief force ready to come to the aid of the Philippines anyway. Bottom line is that no matter what MacArthur did, the Philippines were going to fall. Still, that does not excuse his poor generalship during the campaign.

I'm usually not as critical of MacArthur for his performance during WWII. I'm usually more critical of what he did in Korea. He was out of control.