Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general. He was promoted to Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s. After that MacArthur played a leading role in the Pacific during World War II. He won the prestigious Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines. He rose to the rank of General in the US Army, and was named a field marshal in the Philippine Army. In 1903, MacArthur graduated at the top of his class from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. As a junior officer in the years leading up to World War I, he was stationed in the Philippines and around the United States, served as an aide to his father in the Far East and participated in the American occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, in 1914. After the United