Later, while assigned to USAFFE, MacArthur asked for 4 12in, 4 8in, and 22 additional 155 mm guns, as well as 30 searchlights.

Ridgway asked specifically that if he found the combat situation " to my liking " whether MacArthur would have any objection to " my attacking ".

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur ( Supreme Commander Allied Powers ) asked his Chief of Staff, Major General Ned Almond, to suggest a new name.

On 10 October, Smith was asked to prepare estimates for the Wake Island Conference between the President and General Douglas MacArthur.

Concerned that enemy troops would be withdrawn from Gona to reinforce Guadalcanal, MacArthur asked for a serious commitment of Australian troops to New Guinea.

Gen. Arthur C. MacArthur, Jr. was asked to explain by the US Senate why Mabini had to be deported, he cabled:

The War Department asked in May 1943 if Eichelberger could be released to command the First United States Army, but MacArthur would not release him.

While this was still going on the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George Marshall, had contacted Brett and asked him to get the Australian government to nominate MacArthur, whose arrival in Australia was now imminent, as its choice for supreme commander.

( MacArthur even asked McLoughlin about the investigation of the " dreadful " murder.

Aware that an enemy landing at Buna could threaten Kokoda and then Port Moresby, MacArthur asked his commander of Allied Land Forces — General Sir Thomas Blamey — for details of how he proposed to defend Buna and Kokoda.

Nevertheless, Allied air drop techniques and assets had been steadily improving throughout the campaign and Allen, under significant pressure from Blamey and MacArthur, asked Potts when offensive actions would be resumed now that air-drops were ensuring a regular, albeit sparse, flow of supplies.

On September 5 Marshall asked MacArthur if he wanted a National Guard Division, probably the 41st.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

Responsibility for planning Operation Downfall fell to the U. S. commanders: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the Joint Chiefs of Staff — Fleet Admirals Ernest King and William D. Leahy, and Generals of the Army George Marshall and Hap Arnold ( the latter was commander of the U. S. Army Air Forces ).

Allied command was divided into regions: by 1945, for example, Chester Nimitz was Allied C-in-C Pacific Ocean Areas, while Douglas MacArthur was Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific Area, and Admiral Louis Mountbatten was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command.

In 1958, the portion south of the MacArthur Maze was renamed the Nimitz Freeway in honor of WWII Admiral Nimitz, while the portion to the north retained the name Eastshore Freeway.

In this capacity, in which he served until the early 1950s, he officially welcomed everyone from Charles Lindbergh to Admiral Richard Byrd to Douglas MacArthur to New York and became master of the ticker tape parade.

It called for an attack by MacArthur against northeast New Guinea and western New Britain, and by Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. ( then in command of the South Pacific Area ) against the central Solomons.

He became the first member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be fired since Admiral Louis Denfeld in 1949, and the first top general to be relieved since General MacArthur in 1951.

On December 7, 1945, Wedemeyer with General Douglas MacArthur, and Navy Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, the three top military officers in the Far East, recommended to the Pentagon transporting six more Chinese Nationalist armies into North China and Manchuria.

Johnson also had a brief appearance in MacArthur, in which he played United States Navy Admiral Ernest J.

In Washington, Fleet Admiral Ernest King — Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations — was not completely satisfied with MacArthur sharing command with Admiral Chester Nimitzand held out hope that Nimitz might get overall command.

On 30 March, the Joint Chiefs of Staff divided the Pacific theatre into three areas: the Pacific Ocean Areas ( POA ), under Admiral Chester Nimitz ; the Southwest Pacific Area ( SWPA ), under MacArthur ; and the Southeast Pacific Area, which never became an active theatre.

Douglas MacArthur and Henry Stimson ( United States Secretary of War ) feuding with Admiral Hart over lack of US Navy submarine action.

According to Stimson, MacArthur felt that Hart's ships and submarines were ineffectual, but because Admiral Hart had lost his courage.

Admiral Hart's reaction to MacArthur's brickbats: " He ( MacArthur ) is inclined to cut my throat and perhaps the Navy in general.

After vehement objection by Eisenhower, who wrote " the women of America must share the responsibility for the security of their country in a future emergency as the women of England did in World War II "; the personal testimony of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal ; and support from every major military commander including the Chief of Naval Operations Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and MacArthur, the Commander of the U. S. Army Forces, Far East, who wrote, " we cannot ask these women to remain on duty, nor can we ask qualified personnel to volunteer, if we cannot offer them permanent status "; supporting articles in The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor, and the support of Senator and future President Lyndon B. Johnson and Representative Edith Rogers, the amended bill passed in the House but was rejected in the Senate.

Outlets in the Southwest Pacific were operated under Army General Douglas MacArthur ; those in the Central Pacific, under Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz.

MacArthur told war correspondent Frazier Hunt that Barbey was " just about the number one amphibious commander in the world ," but Admiral Chester Nimitz was more critical.

For the invasion of Leyte, MacArthur and his naval commander, Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid expected that Barbey would continue in command of the amphibious forces, but Nimitz preferred the commander of the III Amphibious Force, Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, who was senior and in Nimitz's opinion, more experienced.

Unified commands in the Pacific Theater proved more difficult to organize as neither General of the Army Douglas MacArthur nor Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz were willing to become subordinate to the other.

From ONI, Wilkinson was assigned briefly as Commander, Battleship Division 2, Pacific Fleet, in August 1942, then as Deputy Commander, South Pacific, under Admiral William Halsey and General Douglas MacArthur as theater commander beginning in January 1943.

He also co-starred in such horror films as The Howling, the war movie MacArthur where he portrayed Admiral Halsey, and the comedies Big Top Pee-wee, and Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

MacArthur was still confident of victory, even colluding with Rear Admiral William Halsey, Jr. about the scheme of landing troops at the mouth of the James River and advancing on Richmond from the rear.

Jumbo is a musical produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

MacArthur Park's bandshell has been recently renovated as the Levitt Pavilion is once again the host of jazz, big band, salsa music, beat music, and world music concerts.

Soon after Truman relieved MacArthur of command in April 1951, Bradley said in Congressional testimony, " Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

In 2005, MacArthur beat Francis Joyon's existing world record for a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation.

Like many screenwriters of his time, notably Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, Walker came to the screen trade from the freewheeling world of newspaper journalism.

" He desired the film to be an " entertaining action film ", but also said he was " very interested in depicting MacArthur as a human being and I want the world to know how miserable the war was for the Korean people.

The MacArthur Maze ( or simply the Maze, also called the Distribution Structure ) is the large freeway interchange located near the eastern end of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in Oakland, California, and the largest freeway interchange in the world.

Ellen MacArthur, best known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman who, on February 7, 2005, broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, trained to become a yachtswoman on Ogston Reservoir

The landmark that has brought Palo to the annals of world history is the Red Beach, in barangay Candahug, where Gen. Douglas MacArthur first landed to liberate the Philippines from the Japanese occupation on October 20, 1944.

The controversy moved to the forefront of the evangelical world in the late 1980s when John F. MacArthur argued that the one-third of all Americans who claimed to be born again according to a 1980 Gallup poll reflected millions who are deceived, possessing a false, soul-destroying assurance.