Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and Field Marshal located in the Philippines. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign (1944-45).
In 1942, with his position in the Philippines made hopeless by Japan’s destruction of more than half the planes in his Far East Command, MacArthur leaves pledging “I shall return!” MacArthur does return, with riveting victories in the Pacific and the handling of of Japan after the war, he was also armed with Presidential aspirations.
The beginning of an extraordinary career young Douglas with his father General Arthur MacArthur was a Colonel in the Civil War and veteran of the Philippine campaign in the Spanish-American war. He had opportunities to study the entire far eastern area gaining an insight into the attitudes and feelings of people’s hardly known by the West at the beginning of World War.
McArthur was ordered by President Roosevelt who regarded him as our greatest general to leave the Philippines and to carry on the fight from Australia. Leaving the Philippines hurt him deeply as he always wished to be at the front beside his comrades.