In an emotional 1953 essay posted by Guideposts, General Douglas MacArthur recounts the Thanksgiving story of Hachiro Yuasa, ...

This Veteran’s Day, as we remember those men and women we’ve sent into battle, we should also take a moment to remember the fateful decisions, sometimes tragically bad ones, our commanders made that ...

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And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: July 8th, 1950, 68 years ago today … the day President Harry S. Truman named General Douglas MacArthur commander of U.S. and Allied Forces in Korea.

It almost happened twice and is long overdue. It was time for General Douglas MacArthur to be awarded the rank of General of the Armies of the United States. Though not an actual Six Star General, the ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his family left the Philippine island of Corregidor on this day in history, March 11, 1942. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the island after ...

President Donald Trump appeared to struggle several times during a commencement address he delivered Saturday afternoon at West Point, including stumbling over the pronunciation of the name of the ...

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In the early 1900s, American attention was focused primarily on Europe and the infighting that would lead to the first World War. At the same time, Douglas MacArthur, an ambitious young soldier, was ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Douglas MacArthur has been ...