If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur, at their first meeting, at the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, 27 September, 1945. U.S. Army. The Japanese Occupation (1945-1951) On the morning of September 8 ...

Of all the great American captains of World War II, none remains more controversial than General Douglas MacArthur, whose genius and folly have taken on mythic proportions. MacArthur alone among ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur was relieved of all his commands today while he was fighting his third war as an American soldier. President Truman fired the nation's senior five-star general because ...

The Fifth Committee is the Committee of the General Assembly with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters. Based on the reports of the Fifth Committee, the General Assembly ...

Goodbye to Bataan. The siege of Bataan was 53 days old when General MacArthur got his orders to leave last February 22. The orders came from President Roosevelt, who had heeded the plea of ...

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 ...