re: The scumbag side of General Douglas McArthur

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The Japanese captured one enormous cache on Luzon simply because the quartermasters had decided it all needed to be in one spot, and they did not have proper authorization through channels to move it.

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SFP would have made a good quartermaster.

Re those staged landings that McArthur ordered, the Navy pilot of the first one purposedly stopped short & McArthur was forced to wade in high water. He hated McArthur it came out later.

Arthur was stationed in Louisiana for a while during Reconstruction

McArthur was a sissy mama’s boy.

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best hour was in korea at inchon

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You can’t gloss over him almost losing the entire American expeditionary force due to his hubris at Chosin.

He frankly should’ve been tried for that

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I fired MacArthur because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was.

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-Harry S. Truman

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Doug’s dad was awarded the Medal of Honor

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That was at Missionary Ridge. Arthur McArthur was 18 years-old. He took the flag from a fallen color bearer and led the attack yelling "On Wisconsin." It was an incredible act of courage and heroism.

Fun fact: when MacArthur enrolled at West Point, his mother moved into a hotel across the street and stayed the entire four years.

Another fun fact: you can stay in the MacArthur Suite at the Manila Hotel. LINK

MacArthur's faults have already been enumerated here, but I'll add another one: he was chief of staff of the Army during the Bonus March and gave the order to evict the marchers at bayonet point.

On the other hand:

He organized the defense of Australia with almost no resources and blunted the Japanese offensive.

Pellelieu notwithstanding, his troops made more amphibious landings than the Navy/Marine Central Pacific offensive and incurred fewer casualties than any other major combatant command.

As in effect Viceroy of Japan, he reorganized Japanese culture from the ground up and is largely responsible for it being a democratic, peaceful society today.

After Truman fired him, some feared he would lead a coup attempt. Instead he respected the Constitution and " faded away."

I recall reading sometime in the final days of MacArthur's life he was in a suite at Walter Reed and LBJ visited and he told Johnson not to get bogged down in a ground was in southeast Asia.