Douglas Macarthur's Life And Accomplishments

On January 26th, 1880 in Little Rock Arkansas, Douglas MacArthur was born. His father was Arthur MacArthur a famous Civil War General. His mother was Mary Hardy MacArthur. He was the 8th cousin of Winston Churchill. In 1903, he graduated with highest honors from the U.S. Military Academy and became an engineer officer. Douglas MacArthur served in the Philippines and Japan from 1906 to 1907. During the next 14 years, besides some routine assignments, he toured the Orient as his father’s aide, served as an aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, and was the army’s first public relations officer. He married Louise Cromwell Brooks in 1922. They never had a child and was divorced 7 years later. In 1937, he married Jean Faircloth; Arthur,

MacArthur was a great and brave military leader.

In World War I, MacArthur reached the rank of general and won numerous honors for his leadership of the 42d Rainbow Division. He was nicknamed the “Fighting Dude.” It's fair to say that the 1903 West Point graduate inherited his brass. Douglas MacArthur soon found himself on European soil. As the next war was engulfing the United States and Japanese pilots were raiding Corregidor, MacArthur, walnut cane under one arm and a crushed, weathered campaign hat atop his head, stood by a hedge, coolly counting enemy fighters and bombers. "Look what they have done to the garden," he remarked with patrician aplomb as water splashed and clods of earth erupted around him. Some Corregidor veterans later vilified him as "Dugout Doug," but MacArthur was never one to dodge shot and shell. Still, even his valor could generate controversy. Perhaps the earliest

Olympic Committee died suddenly and with the 1928 games in the Netherlands less than a year away, Douglas MacArthur’s name came up as a replacement. MacArthur accepted the post with enthusiasm. MacArthur enjoyed everything, from meeting with coaches, giving inspiring speeches to athletes, sponsoring committees, and planning the travel and workout schedule. When the team arrived in Holland, "the outlook was not bright for our entrants," Douglas MacArthur wrote later, "but I was determined that the United States should win at Amsterdam." Douglas MacArthur believed in the U.S. Olympic Team would win. The Teams won a total of 24 gold medals that