re: March 13, 1942: Tumbling Capitals - MacArthur on the Run

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MaxArthur was a disaster in WWII. He was totally unprepared in the Philippines.

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My former neighbor, now deceased, was a Marine combat veteran who fought in the Solomons and was wounded at Guadalcanal. He hated MacArthur. Called him "Dugout Doug". He never forgave MacArthur for evacuating Corregidor and abandoning the troops. Another Manila combat veteran that I worked with told me that when his unit attacked in Manila, the U.S. forces were told to avoid and not damage a big fancy hotel there in Manila that MacArthur owned. He said the Marine and Navy air corps then shot and bombed it to pieces. Apparently, they didn't like him, either.