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Gen. Douglas MacArthur delivered his "Old soldiers never die" speech to a joint session of Congress on this day in history, April 19, 1951. Earlier, MacArthur was relieved of his military duties.
The mission statement until recently included the three words made famous in retired Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s 1962 farewell address to West Point cadets. The storied World War II and Korean War ...
On April 5, 1964, General Douglas MacArthur died from kidney and liver diseases at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Georgia Ave. The general was 84 years old. He had been hospitalized for ...
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump used the first military commencement address of his second term Saturday to congratulate West Point cadets on their academic and physical ...
A mericans expecting a hero's farewell speech—the kind that General Douglas MacArthur gave at West Point one year later—were surprised by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's final address from ...
In the view of Michael Miller, the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur's words "Duty, Honor, Country" helped him and the soldiers he commanded survive a particularly harrowing night in Vietnam in 1968.
When Douglas MacArthur left the islands in 1942, ... He stood 6-foot-2 and weighed only 125 pounds when he entered West Point three years behind MacArthur.
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MacArthur itched to return to the Philippines but led major campaigns in New Guinea. On Oct. 20, 1944, he and his naval counterpart, Adm. Chester Nimitz, launched an invasion of Leyte Island.
Americans expecting a hero's farewell speech—the kind that General Douglas MacArthur gave at West Point one year later—were surprised by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's final address from the ...