He was the model of restraint and decorum while conducting the Japanese surrender ceremonies ... that surround the long career of Douglas MacArthur, but rather to offer an engaging and balanced ...

U.S. Army. The Japanese Occupation (1945-1951) On the morning of September 8, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur made his way by automobile toward the American Embassy in the heart of Tokyo.

Feb. 3, 1945, the battle for the capital of the Philippines began between Allied Forces and Imperial Japan. The 1st Cavalry ...

The records concern negotiations from 1958 and 1960, primarily between Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II. In February 1958, Prime Minister ...

COLONEL Narciso L. Manzano was the highest-ranking Filipino officer in the US Army under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. During World War II, he led and was involved in multiple battles and ...

General Douglas MacArthur ... was slowly overshadowed by the growing threat posed by an expansionist Japan. MacArthur, despite the able assistance of top aide Dwight Eisenhower, would not have ...

Douglas MacArthur's 1942 pledge to recapture the island from the Japanese. Since the Japanese controlled nearly every island between the Philippines and Hawaii in 1942, getting to the Philippines ...

General Douglas MacArthur left Baatang, the Philippines, ahead of the invading Japanese forces and uttered the famous phrase ...

Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines during ... The day after Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, Japan ...

"What do you think of Douglas MacArthur?" Few questions in military ... and overseeing the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan, but also a man who could be vain, arrogant, suspicious ...