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'He Did It All By Himself': Trump Claims Douglas MacArthur Single-Handedly Wrote Japan's Constitution In Rambling Remarks To Business Leaders

During a reception and dinner event for business leaders in Japan earlier today, Donald Trump claimed that U.S. General ...
Opinion
American Enterprise InstituteOpinion

Why Truman Fired MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur’s firing by President Harry S. Truman in 1951 is the only genuine case of wartime insubordination by an American military commander. There is no question that the president had a ...
Time

General Douglas MacArthur

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.
The Washington Post

How Japan’s post-World War II flourishing was seeded by MacArthur

Ian W. Toll is the author of the new book “Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945,” the final entry in his nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific War. On the cool, cloudy morning of ...
Time

This Is How Douglas MacArthur Became an American Hero

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Douglas MacArthur has been ...
Smithsonian Magazine

To Mark Japan’s Surrender at the End of World War II, This Navy Officer Raced Halfway Around the World With a Historic Flag in Tow

In August 1945, John K. Bremyer undertook a 124-hour, 9,000-mile journey to Tokyo Bay, where he delivered the flag flown by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 to Admiral William Halsey’s USS “Missouri” ...
The Nation

General Douglas MacArthur

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