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re: Gen. Douglas MacArthur "dug out dug"

Posted on 6/15/15 at 2:44 pm to
Posted by LR2RedStick
Baton Rouge/Little Rock
Member since Nov 2010
373 posts
Posted on 6/15/15 at 2:44 pm to
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Can we all agree the dugout Doug was a huge piece of shite. A coward and a traitor. I'm watching the pacific on history channel and was reminded of just how big a piece of shite dug out Doug was.
Why in the hell do some people see him as a hero. Abandoning his men on Batan and all the Marines he sacrifice retaking a island that didnt have to be taken. He did it out of pure pride. Sacrificed fathers,brothers and husbands for his pride. Not to mention he put himself in for a MOH for his bull shite heroic actions. 7 silver stars and a arse load more of stolen valor medals. And for some reason he has a monument at his grave site honing his **** arse as some american hero.

P.s. Screw you dug out doug


Look up the Battle of Inchon. Get back to me.
Posted by LR2RedStick
Baton Rouge/Little Rock
Member since Nov 2010
373 posts
Posted on 6/15/15 at 2:47 pm to
I will agree that MacArthur was caught with his pants down in the phillipines and should have been on high alert after Pearl Harbor. His actions thereafter and his pure military genius at Inchon and throughout Korea more than made up for it.

He was an arrogant prick. He also used that arrogance and persona to quickly bring japan to heel postwar and rescue half the korean continent from the reign of the dear leaders...aka annihiliation.

Long story short..OP has limited perspective and is basing his entire opinion of a complex historical figure off of an HBO miniseries.
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 6/15/15 at 3:28 pm to
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Look up the Battle of Inchon. Get back to me.




Well you bring up a good point here. MacArthur is just one example of a general that at times looked brilliant and others quite inept. And to be fair he's far from the only general to have both spectacular defeats and failure intermingled with equally spectacular victory and success.

So while it's fair fault his performance at the Philippines in 1941 -42. It should also be pointed out that no matter what he did, the Philippines were going to fall. and after the Philippines his performance was quite good.

As for the matter of him wasting the lives of "good Marines", I'll point out that his favored tactic in WWII, one that he would later use at Inchon, was to instead of attacking the enemy head on in costly frontal attacks against their fortified positions, to by-pass and out flank the enemy using amphibious assaults to get around and behind tier forces. Look at his handling of the New Guinea Campaign and how he repeatedly by-passed strong Japanese forces as he moved ever closer to the Philippines while minimizing his own losses.

And along with this, I'll point out that while MacArthur was using his "hit them where they ain't" strategy to good effect, it was Admiral Nimitz who was at the same time overseeing the Solomon Islands Campaignthat featured some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, including the Battles of Guadalcanal and Bougainville. And keep in mind that following the Solomons Campaign, Nimitz then commanded the Gilbert Islands Campaign that saw the bloody, and very unnecessary, battle of Tarawa.

So while it's fair to criticize MacArthur in many regards, wasting the lives of his men is not one of them. Of the two main allied leaders in the Pacific, Nimitz arguably wasted far more lives than MacArthur.
This post was edited on 6/15/15 at 3:31 pm
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