"The General Douglas Macarthur Story" - Narrated by Walter Cronkite - REEL History

Narrated by Walter Cronkite, this 1957 special episode of "The Big Picture" profiles one of the greatest generals of the 20th Century, and is an excellent summary of General MacArthur's life and career from West Point through World War One… World War Two & the Korean War. With an introduction by actor Walter Matthau.
MacArthur graduated from West Point top of his class of 1903. During the 1914 occupation of Veracruz, he he was nominated for the Medal of Honor. In 1917 during World War 1, he was promoted from major to colonel and became chief of staff of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division. In the fighting in France, he rose to the rank of brigadier general commanding the the 84th Infantry Brigade, was again nominated for a Medal of Honor, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross twice & the Silver Star seven times.
He retired in 1937, becoming an unofficial adviser to the Philippine government. With war looming, MacArthur was recalled to active duty in July 1941 as commander of United States Army Forces in the Far East. Catastrophes followed, starting with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941, followed by their invasion of the Philippines. MacArthur's outnumbered forces withdrew to Bataan, holding out until May 1942. In March, he & his staff left Corregidor in PT boats, escaping to Australia, where he became Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area.
He was awarded the Medal of Honor. After two years of intensive fighting characterized by a series of strategically brilliant campaigns, starting in New Guinea, he fulfilled his promise to return & liberate the Philippines. He accepted Japan's surrender on 2 September 1945 in Tokyo Bay. He led the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951, implementing major economic, social and political reforms. In the Korean War, he was initially Commander United Nations Forces until he was removed by President Truman in 1951, after a series of disputes over the overall strategic direction of the war.
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[@rouninroy]

I'm a Filipino, and I love how General McArthur kept his promise

[@onkarad4291]

Excellent Narrating Video

[@aislinnkeilah7361]

An excellent presentation. General MacArthur was the greatest military commander of all time. Patton called him”the bravest man I ever met.” His accomplishments are legendary from Vera Cruz to Japan and Korea. Had he not retaken the Philippines there would not have been any Allied military and civilian POW survivors. He recommended to Kennedy not to get involved in a land war in Asia. Kennedy listened and was assassinated. Johnson ignored the advice and gave us the Vietnam War. Except for the Minor engagement at Granada under Reagan the US has failed at virtually every military endeavor since Korea which was a draw under General Mark Clark and Truman.

[@grumpyoldman8661]

Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke Chief of the Imperial General Staff, considered Macarthur the greatest commander of WW2. Coming from him this was high praise indeed. (UK)

[@nogoodnameleft]

Sir Alan Brooke was the UK's George Marshall, to all the non-Britons who have no idea who Alan Brooke was. He love MacArthur so much. I think it is strange how people don't want to read directly from the books by generals and admirals who directly served with MacArthur how they felt about him. MacArthur's SW Pacific air general George Kenney, SW Pacific amphibious admiral Daniel Barbey, and the general who was a lawyer who wrote the Japanese Constitution named Courtney Whitney all wrote fantastic books about WWII and Occupied Japan and they all praised MacArthur and called him a genius. All the critics and whiners of MacArthur were from the European Theater or were from Nimitz' theater. Vice Admiral Bulkeley, who rescued MacArthur from Corregidor in 1942, thought MacArthur was the greatest military serviceman ever. And "Dugout Doug" was a political nasty PR name invented by FDR to demonize MacArthur. FDR and his guys in the military encouraged all soldiers and sailors in the Pacific to call MacArthur by that name.

[@iamnutty8471]

@@nogoodnameleft your comment without relative evidence of operating theratree is a social blowjob! like churchill mcharther was incomptent and dismissed witthina few years after ww2

[@emperormemehelmii4057]

I shall return I am from Philippines

[@jolie1327]

The Pilipino people are wonderful, warm and hard working! May you never forget the love and sacrifice the American people have for you! When I talk to each and every one of you, I smile and our conversation brings happiness.

[@tiamatxvxianash9202]

William Manchester's "American Caesar" is the definitive biography on the life and leadership of General Douglas MacArthur. He was well deserving of the Medal specifically stuck for him in 1962; "Liberator of the Philippine's - Conqueror of Japan - Defender of Korea - Protector of Australia"

[@nogoodnameleft]

That is one of the best Congressional Gold Medal designs ever. He deserved every honor and award.

[@adolfonecesito8271]

I bought a copy of his book, Autobiography of General Arthur MacArthur, when I was a young grad student in late 60s at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York . It was my most cherished possession. Back in the Philippines, young brother lost it among his ROTC co-cadets. His account of the war was vivid in details and his attachment to the new republic of the Philippines was personal and genuine.

[@nogoodnameleft]

@@adolfonecesito8271 He was a hero. Thank you for your story.

[@JackWhite52]

I'd highly recommend Arthur Herman's Douglas MacArthur American Warrior. It's much more up to date.

[@cq7415]

Mostly all war footage. Thanks.

[@jimkaipanen6577]

The reason Truman released of command in Korea he wanted to March through North Korea to China would have started W.W.3 I femember this from my childhood.

[@nogoodnameleft]

Typical Truman propagandist misinformation. MacArthur wanted to win the war. Truman wanted to sneakily have it to where MacArthur would lose and he could blame him for everything even though Truman was the one who ordered the military to cross the 38th, not MacArthur. He only signed off on Inchon because he thought MacArthur would fail also. The reason MacArthur did what he did in March 1951 was the bullshit ceasefire that Truman wanted to do then called for the "evacuation of all foreign forces from Korea", which you know that a repeat of June 1950 would just repeat within a year or two. The Chinese did their spring offensive in April 1951 so MacArthur's intuitions were correct that it was just a ploy and the ceasefire plan by Truman was a joke. MacArthur must have received intel that the ceasefire plan by Acheson (worthless bureacurat) was going to sell out South Korea to China and the North.

[@crazydave951]

Narrated by Walter Mathieu not Cronkite.

[@harryputang5352]

When he wet his pants landing on the Philippines...many burt soldiers just stared.

[@iamnutty8471]

more staged then a kardashian porno

[@luisovilla1995]

Hi

[@juanmontoya6622]

Although Truman's reasoning were sound, he lacked courage to face Communists head on like Kennedy did. MacArthur was a Great General, and a human being too. His overconfidence was normal giving the circumstances. After realizing his mistake, he had was guts to fight back and to confront the PRC with nukes. History tell us that MacArthur was right, and Truman was wrong. Had MacArthur nuked the PRC, Korea would have been free. We would also be free from cheap products that come undone right after purchase, and free from threats to our global leadership by the crooked PRC.

[@eduardosantos7290]

Salute to United State of America , and the one Almity God , Born And Raise, one and only! General Douglas Macarthur. King of peace. We're ever you are sir! I always remember you 💕.

[@rogerharrell7327]

He brought it back to the Philippines with a vengeance ol son!

[@1982382]

Once he was the Chief of staff of the Army and then was fired? What a tragedy, the army looked at him like a crazy when he was the brilliance of the army but they were political and he was not and thats why he was a great Soldier. But what happened to This great General Douglas Macarthur is and always will be a Tragedy!

[@e.a.p3174]

He protest Rosevelt's cuts to the army during the great depression. He retired from U.S. Army and became military advisor to the Philippine Commonwealth government. He was recalled when Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour.

[@nogoodnameleft]

@@e.a.p3174 He also was the one who helped create the B-17 bomber and M1 Garand rifle from 1930-35. But his haters will keep lying and denying.

[@joezephyr]

In any organisation, typically the good people rise to the top. In spite of that, in my view, Macarthur, did not really make any decisions, that another general in his shoes, would have done differently.

[@andrewphillips8341]

Are you serious? He made so many criminally incompetent that condemned his men to a slow death. Any have decent Sargent could have done a far superior job than that egomaniac.

[@nogoodnameleft]

@@andrewphillips8341 Incorrect. He was the greatest U.S. military servicemember in history. You are very poorly educated. Go read a real book about MacArthur and not the garbage lies told by "We love to steal valor" First Marines and simps of Dugout Chester and Dirty Harry.

[@billsanders5067]

To all of the people who commented that they believe Dougout Doug was America's greatest military leader are aware that in the summer of 1932 MacArthur was ordered to inform the Bonus Army that they were to move to a different area. MacArthur ordered mounted troops to force the veterans to be forceable removed. They were not given time to remove their personal property, which MacArthur ordered burned? Did you know that MacArthur was informed that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, and never placed American and Phillipine forces on general alert, and that he never explained his failure to do so? Do you know that when he invaded the Phillipines, he was never to defeat the Japanese forces and that the Japanese commanding General did not surrender until informed that the emperor ordered all Japanese forces it cease all fighting, and that MacArthur ordered the Japanese General to be tried, convicted and hung for the "rape of Minila" and that the Japanese officer was not in incharge of the troops that carried out the war crimes. MacArthur did not want the Japanese General to write his memories of his defence of the Phillipines. The picture of MacArthur wading ashore was carefully staged. The press was put ashore, MacArthur then ordered the navy assualt boat coming to back the landing craft off the beach so that MacArthur could be photographed wading ashore in knee deep water. Are you aware that after the war when MacArthur learned that Gen. WWainwright was going to be awarded the MOH, he lobbied friends in congress to prevent it from happening. In 1950 A 5:59 5:59 merica army forces in Korea would have beefirced to withdraw to Japan had to not been for the 1st. Marine Provsional Bergrade that was able to stabilize and hold the permiter around the port at Pusan. In the fall of 1950, MacArthur ignored solid intelligence that if American troops invaded North Korea, Chinese Nationalist Army forces would enter the war, and in Dec.that MacArthur left the 1st Marine Division surrounded by Chinese forces at the Chosin Resvor. I do not think that anyone who is knowledgeable about Douglas MacArthur and can be objective can believe he was anything but an egomaniac that never gave a second thought about the men doing the fighting under his command.

[@nogoodnameleft]

So many fake lies spread by you. Let me fix your lies. First of all, MacArthur was the greatest U.S. military servicemember in history. He actually fought in combat and risked his life numerous times in WWII unlike your precious Dugout Chester, Dugout Ike, and Dugout George Marshall. Those 3 REMFs never ever served a single second in combat yet people like you strangely never call them "Dugout". Wainwright was an alcoholic and hugged the bottle nightly at Bataan. MacArthur only went to Bataan once because in that one visit he saw Wainwright and other officers drunk on whiskey and it was the most depressing thing he ever saw. Mac was right to say no to giving Wainwright the MoH. He did support giving Wainwright the MoH after the war though...and I find it strange how you don't mention that MacArthur endorsed him in 1945 for the MoH. The only reason UN forces went north was because Dirty Harry Truman ordered MacArthur and your precious "we love to steal valor" First Marines on 11 Sept 1950 to go north above the 38th parallel despite MacArthur pointing out to Truman that the UN resolution from July 1950 said to only restore South Korea up to the 38th parallel. Anything that happened after Truman stupidly made that decision on 11 September was TRUMAN'S FAULT, not MacArthur's. Admiral Hart of the Asiatic Fleet received the breaking news that Pearl Harbor was attacked. You know who he did not bother to inform even though the Navy was the one with better radio communications than the Army? MacArthur! He did not tell MacArthur about the Pearl Harbor attack until hours after Hart had learned about it! MacArthur did not learn about the Pearl Harbor attack until he learned about it ON THE RADIO! Also, Brereton and most of the USAAF enlisted and officers were partying their hats off at Clark Field and all over Luzon the night before the Japanese started waging war. They were all too drunk to do anything efficiently the following day. That was not MacArthur's fault that FDR and Dugout George Marshall kept sending to him alcoholic drunks like Wainwright, Brereton, and most of the airmen sent to the Philippines. The USAAF was outside of MacArthur's chain of command, meaning that even if MacArthur had ordered a private airman to move a p-40 or B-17 they were under strict orders from Brereton and the USAAF to not follow MacArthur's command and to tell MacArthur to tell Brereton to order the airman...but Brereton did not follow MacArthur's orders to move the B-17s south to Mindanao and he delayed the move until December 10th or 11th, which was way too late. Did you know that Yamashita was executed for not only the Manila Massacre but also for the Batangas Massacre and for ordering Philippine Army generals like Vicente Lim and Fidel Segundo to be executed via beheading? Yamashita murdered a lot of Filipinos and Americans prior to him leaving Manila in January 1945. Yamashita ordered the founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines to be beheaded too. You know all those hellships and horrible POW and civilian internee camps? Those were run by the KEMPEITAI, a Japanese ARMY unit. Who was Japanese Army? YAMASHITA!!! MacArthur did the right thing at the Bonus Army March. The Bonus Army communist rioters started throwing bricks at the DC Police officers and forced the policemen to shoot them, killing two of them. Then Hoover and the DC district council begged the Army to take care of the problem. MacArthur actually did something honorable that many soldiers said later was great. He could have just sat in the White House and let others take the blame. By him being the public face of that whole s***show he was taking the blame and saying "if you want to get angry at someone for dealing with the rioters get angry at me". Also, it has been proven that the one death after the horses were called in to force the rioters to retreat after they attacked the police first was a pre-existing condition death. That child had an already fatal condition and the only blame is on his stupid parents for bringing an innocent child to that type of event where a riot would likely break out. All during that summer there were communist-inspired riots yet for some reason you don't want to mention the other communist riots all over America which led to the Bonus Army disaster. FDR didn't even give them a bonus until almost the beginning of WWII, btw. Stop spreading complete lies about one of the greatest Americans in history, General MacArthur.

[@bennieseverino2595]

valliant warrior

[@andrewphillips8341]

It is Dug out DOUG! He condemned his men through pure incompetence then ran away!

[@warrenmatha3424]

nice display of ignorance of history.

[@nogoodnameleft]

Ordered to leave by FDR and given the MOH by George Marshall. "Dugout Doug" is a name given by cowardly liberals who hate the heroic MacArthur. MacArthur was almost killed by a Japanese bomb in Corregidor in Dec 1941 when it exploded ten ft from him. That was why he stayed on Corregidor. Also he was always at the frontlines in the battles he commanded. And look up his WWI combat record. REMFs like Marshall, Eisenhower, and Nimitz were the true Dugout and cowards.

[@Scrunchymage]

Guys look into why he was sacked and the military hearings that have been declassified. The guy was a bloody idiot. None of the other generals backed his decision to start a war with China, who was allied with the soviets strongly at that time. It would have meant the annihilation of the UN forces in Korea and a Third World War. I’m glad Truman had the good sense to sack him.

[@1999glock]

You are an idiot. he was ORDERED out of the Philippines as the most senior general in the pacific.

[@billsanders5067]

Dougout Doug was the name that he was given by the the troops fighting on Corridor and then was picked up by the 1st. Marine Division when he mamaged to get them sorrended in Dec. 1950 in North Korea.​@@nogoodnameleft

[@power3545]

wala man lang Tank you

[@jeromeburkesr9704]

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[@JP71165]

If the Great General McArthur was allowed to march all the way to Peking or all the way to Moscow, we wouldn’t have the problems we have now with these two belligerents.

[@millennium677]

nope America would be a distant memory

[@franciscarlotadena8142]

Couldn't agree more.

[@jesusaacosta2299]

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[@dougkidwell7142]

Barf!!!

[@khankrum1]

DUGOUT DOUG was not that good.

[@nogoodnameleft]

He was the best General ever. Only cowardly liberals call him Dugout Doug. The real cowards were REMFs named Marshall, Eisenhower, and Nimitz.

[@lard_lad_AU]

@@nogoodnameleft you have zero idea of what your taking about.

[@nogoodnameleft]

@@lard_lad_AU spoken like a good commie simp

[@scotttracy2110]

Dugout Doug was a fool ... period... 8 hours to get ready for an attack after pearl harbor and that dumbas just had all the planes lined up for the enemy.. pompous ,arrogant

[@aislinnkeilah7361]

Remarkable ignorance. Did you listen to this excellent video which only highlighted some of General MacArthurs legendary remarkable achievements?

[@scotttracy2110]

What a bunch of horseshit. He may have done well in his younger years,,, he wasn’t worth fishguts in WW2 .

[@jesserivera5512]

Stop being ignorant and research what you're talking about, you make no sense

[@aislinnkeilah7361]

Remarkable though rather vulgar ignorance. Why the anger? Did you listen to this video which only highlighted some of his legendary achievements?

[@DiviAugusti]

His greatest achievement is his handling of postwar Japan. It can be argued his greatest military achievement is the Inchon landing. These were his older years.

[@nogoodnameleft]

@@DiviAugusti It is crazy how ill-informed people are about MacArthur. They have a great reason to not like his politics or his personality if it doesn't match theirs but he did a lot of wonderful things. Just for a small sampling when he was Chief of Staff from 1930-35 he helped to create the Purple Heart, Silver Star, B-17 bomber, and M1 Garand. He also helped to establish and manage to great efficiency the Civilian Conservation Corps. Yet his haters want to only focus on that Bonus Army disaster because they don't want to talk about the fact that MacArthur's actions as Chief of Staff helped to install General Frank Andrews as the head of GHQ Air Force (which MacArthur created in 1935) to a position that covertly committed to R&D for the B-17 bomber for the next 5 years while the War Department and FDR rejected the B-17 and embraced the horrendous twin-engined B-18 bomber. FDR and George Marshall and the War Department did not embrace the B-17 until 1940. Thanks to MacArthur and Andrews the B-17 was ready to be mass-produced by 1940 right after the start of WWII. Because of MacArthur's successors' bizarre hatred of the B-17 there were only 12 B-17s (prototypes that MacArthur and Andrews secretly ordered for R&D in 1935-36) in existence in September 1939 while hundreds of horrible B-18s were on active service. We should thank MacArthur for the B-17 and M1 Garand rifle.

[@tonyolivari2480]

McArthur propoganda... His troops gave him the nickname 'Dugout Doug' because he hid away. He disobeyed orders and didn't prepare for the proper defence of the Philippine, by the time he realised his 'instincts' were wrong it was too late. When he returned to the Philippines he unnecessarily flattened intramuros the old heart of Manila killing 100,000 civilians. Truman dismissed him in 1952 for insubordination because his military decisions were becoming political. He had got carried away with his own ego and forgotten his role and the chain of command.

[@nogoodnameleft]

Hey look, it's billsanders5067's alt account 🤣. FDR and his political machine gave MacArthur the horrendous "Dugout" nickname PRIOR to Pearl Harbor as so eloquently researched by Mark Perry in "The Most Dangerous Man in America". MacArthur not only fought in combat in WWI, earning 2 DSCs and 7 Silver Stars and numerous French military medals but he also risked his life numerous times during WWII unlike your favorite REMFs named Nimitz, Eisenhower, and George Marshall (who all served a combined ZERO seconds in combat in their combined entire careers, unlike MacArthur). There was no proper defense of the Philippines because from 1923-1936 thanks to the horrendous Ariticle XIX of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty no new U.S. military bases were allowed to be built in the Philippines and also no modernization of military bases could happen in the Philippines. That was why all the guns on Corregidor in 1941-42 were horrible 1900s/1910s obsolete guns, worthless for even fighting against 1930s/40s warships. By the time this treaty expired in early 1937 FDR and the War Department decided that they would not support MacArthur and Quezon to adequately defend the Philippines. MacArthur and Dugout Eisenhower traveled to DC in 1937-38 begging FDR and Dugout George Marshall for surplus Springfield rifles and you know what your precious FDR did? He laughed at them and told them to get lost and he would not give the Philippines old surplus Springfield rifles. With regards to the Manila Massacre that was done by the Japanese Navy. Most of the artillery strikes were from the mountains surrounding Manila. You know who were in those mountains? JAPANESE MILITARY. The Japanese artillery were the ones destroying and targeting the Manila hospitals. You know how Yamashita could have avoided the massacre by the Navy and legally escape culpability? He could have followed MacArthur's example in 1941 and declare Manila an open city like the Nazis did with Rome in June 1944 and declare that any Japanese military who is fighting within Manila city limits are not doing so under the Emperor and they should be considered non-military renegade forces no longer a part of the Japanese military. But he didn't because he secretly supported what the Japanese Navy did. The Japanese Army also were the ones who set fire to Manila...this was BEFORE the Japanese Navy started fighting in the Battle of Manila as well as before they started massacring Filipino civilians. You know what Yamashita was also executed for? The Palawan Massacre, crimes by the Kempeitai (Japanese secret police...who were part of the Japanese ARMY) against POWs and civilian internees, sending U.S. POWs to hellships to die, beheading Filipino war heroes like General Vicente Lim, General Fidel Segundo, and the female founder of the Philippines Girl Scouts in December 1944. Truman ordered MacArthur and your precious "we love to steal valor" First Marines north across the 38th parallel on 11 September 1950 despite the UN resolution only demanding the restoration of South Korea south of the 38th parallel. Everything that happened after 11 September 1950 was Truman's fault and his alone. The Chinese also illegally invaded North Korea and murdered American soldiers and Marines without MacArthur or the Marines illegally crossing into Chinese soil or killing Chinese troops first within China. Truman also banned the UN forces from doing any aerial reconnaissance of Manchuria. Truman was the one who set everyone up to fail yet you don't want us to learn about that for some reason. The Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed in April 1951 that MacArthur did not commit insubordination. The only thing he went against was against Truman's DOD order (which was not a military order that Truman gave to the JCS to give to MacArthur for some strange reason) to not publicly talk to the media. But in January 1951 Truman was asked by the media in Florida if he is placing a gag order on MacArthur with that DOD employees order and Truman said "Absolutely not...there is no gag order on MacArthur and he is free to TALK TO ANYBODY he wants to, including the media." So MacArthur didn't commit insubordination and he didn't even break anything like what Truman admitted to the Florida media was "no gag orders have been placed on General MacArthur".