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 ...

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 ...

General Douglas MacArthur, 1905. Library of Congress. Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life, from cradle to grave, in the United States Army. He spent his early years in remote sections of New ...

But for sheer star quality few could equal General Douglas MacArthur. And on September 21, 1951 when MacArthur arrived at the Allentown Fair, it was a red letter day in local history. Why ...

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 ...