It almost happened twice and is long overdue. It was time for General Douglas MacArthur to be awarded the rank of General of the Armies of the United States. Though not an actual Six Star General, the ...

Even the most casual students of military history know that General Douglas MacArthur was fired for insubordination during the Korean War, and his reputation was well-established before that war.

NORFOLK, Va. — High honors were bestowed posthumously upon a top general on Friday, 71 years after the end of the Korean War. Representatives of South Korea came to Norfolk to present the "Order of ...

Some call them modern-day shamans, others might call them faith healers. The South Korean followers of musok call them mudang, and they act as the link between the followers of the musok religion and ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his family left the Philippine island of Corregidor on this day in history, March 11, 1942. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the island after ...

Duty, honor and country. Those were the ideals that General of the Army Douglas MacArthur stood for and Eighth Army sees the general's legacy alive and well in Capt. Franklin Wright and Chief Warrant ...

It was Franklin Roosevelt who famously described Gen. Douglas MacArthur as the most dangerous man in America. Thus the basis – and the title – of American historian Mark Perry’s latest book. The time ...

The task of reconstructing Europe after World War II was divvied up among the handful of victorious nations. But in the Pacific, the job of rebuilding Japan fell, effectively, to a single man: U.S.

General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) "You couldn't shrug your shoulders at Douglas MacArthur," observes historian David McCullough. "There was nothing bland about him, nothing passive about him, ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — South Korean police arrested a man Thursday suspected of defacing a bronze statue of the late General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in Incheon. Detectives from the ...

“Ladies and gentlemen, Gen. Douglas MacArthur,” said a Universal Studio publicist, introducing Gregory Peck to a traveling press contingent in tones grander than his usual, “The bus leaves in five ...

NORFOLK, Va. — I recently visited the MacArthur Memorial to check out a piece of local history. When you think about Army vehicles, you likely picture dull green tanks, Jeeps, and large trucks.