Born: Jan. 26, 1880, at Fort Little Rock, Ark. Family Background: His father, General Arthur MacArthur, was a Civil War colonel (“the Boy Colonel of the West”) who earned a Congressional Medal, became ...

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, on5, 1950, U.S. forces under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed at Inchon, a port located near the waist of the Korean peninsula. Korea is shaped like a slightly bent ...

In Suite 37A of Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria Towers, a Japanese and an American stood arm in arm, beaming. “Glad to see you. It’s been a long time. Glad to see you,” said Douglas MacArthur, 75, General ...

NORFOLK, Va. — High honors were bestowed posthumously upon a top general on Friday, 71 years after the end of the Korean War. Representatives of South Korea came to Norfolk to present the "Order of ...