MacArthur then planned for a full-scale invasion of China, but this was against the wishes of President Truman and others who wanted a limited war.

In February, 1947, General Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Japan, banned a planned general strike of 2, 400, 000 government workers, stating that " so deadly a social weapon " as the general strike should not be used in the impoverished and emaciated condition of Japan so soon after World War II.

MacArthur planned to find North Korean generals, especially Kim Il-Sung, and try them as war criminals.

Trohan was known for ferreting out the fact that President Truman planned to fire General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of UN forces in Korea.

He wrote of World War II in several other books, including his second of a planned three-part biography of Winston Churchill, and a biography of General Douglas MacArthur, American Caesar.

The B-17s were back a Clark Field after 11: 30 and that MacArthur planned an attack against Formosa for the morning of 9 December.

Because General MacArthur planned to stage two divisions from Iloilo for the invasion of Japan, engineers began repairing the local airfield and starting base construction at once.

MacArthur then planned for a full-scale invasion of China, but this was against the wishes of President Harry S. Truman and others who wanted a limited war.

Major General Abner Dowling is recalled to Philadelphia from the newly re-created state of Houston to assist in the new thrust on Richmond being planned by General MacArthur.

( Interstate 280, as originally planned, ran south from the west end of I-480 along SR 1, through the MacArthur Tunnel and Golden Gate Park, to join its present alignment in Daly City.

Earlier on 4 February, General MacArthur had announced the imminent recapture of the capital while his staff planned a victory parade.

In 1959, wealthy landowner and insurance magnate John D. MacArthur announced plans to develop and build homes for 55, 000 people.

The New York City Department of Traffic announced a plan in 1964 to build a parking garage underneath the park, much like the Boston Common, Union Square in San Francisco and MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.

Looking for ways to counter the Japanese advance into the South Pacific, the Supreme Allied Commander in the South West Pacific Area — General Douglas MacArthur — decided to build up Allied forces in New Guinea as a prelude to an offensive against the main Japanese base at Rabaul.

There was a massive build up of Australian and United States forces in the state, and the Allied Supreme Commander in the South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur, established his headquarters in Brisbane.

On September 15, General Douglas MacArthur conducted Operation Chromite, an amphibious landing at the city of Inchon ( Song Do port ).

* September 5 – WWII: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nadzab, just east of the port city of Lae in northeastern Papua New Guinea.

The city, while nominated to be abandoned to the Japanese in the spring by Australian factions was, by September, home to an important Allied complex of bases and thousands of troops were eventually stationed in the area or more often, staged through it, as it was the last allied bastion on the island and the last line of defense against the Japanese before Australia and conversely, a key staging and jumping off point as the Allies got their feet underneath themselves under MacArthur, and began conducting offensive warfare themselves, pushing back the Japanese advances.

The 1960 Census recorded that the city officially had a population of one, apparently a squatter whom MacArthur had allowed to stay on his property.

These trees still remain at the center of MacArthur Boulevard near Northlake Boulevard and are still featured on the city shield.

However, the opening of the Gardens Mall in 1988 initiated a new wave of development, as did the sell off in 1999 of approximately in the city by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Three separate elementary schools, Galena Park Elementary School in Galena Park, MacArthur Elementary School in Galena Park, and Pyburn Elementary School in Houston, serve students from the city of Galena Park Almost all Galena Park students are zoned to Galena Park Middle School ( 6-8 ) in Galena Park.

MacArthur Park ( formerly Westlake Park ) is a park in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, named after General Douglas MacArthur and designated city of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument # 100.

The city played a central role in the Allied campaign during World War II as the South West Pacific headquarters for General Douglas MacArthur.

The main entrance to the airport is off of MacArthur Blvd in Irvine, the city that abuts the airport from the north and east.

His associate Emmit Reese ( Don Cheadle ) notes the quake caused no major damage on the city, but seven utility workers are later burned to death in a storm drain at MacArthur Park.

General MacArthur, though opposed to the bombing of the walled city, approved the heavy shelling which resulted in deaths of 16, 665 Japanese alone within Intramuros.

Detroit Mayor Roman Gribbs touted the project as a complete rebuilding from bridge to bridge, referring to the area between the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit to Windsor, Ontario and the MacArthur Bridge, which connects the city with Belle Isle Park.

On September 15, General Douglas MacArthur conducted an amphibious landing at the city of Inchon ( Song Do port ).

Due to the efforts of Bernie Babcock, however, the city finally named it MacArthur Park in 1942 in honor of Douglas MacArthur.

The center occupies a large city block between Jamboree, MacArthur and San Joaquin Hills roads, and Pacific Coast Highway.

in 1996 within the city of Oakland only ), MacArthur Blvd., Foothill Blvd., and Bancroft Ave. Main northeast-southwest thoroughfares include Fruitvale Ave., 35th Ave., High St., Seminary Ave., 73rd Ave. ( which becomes the Hegenberger Expressway south of East 14th St. to Oakland International Airport ), and 98th Ave. East Oakland is home to Mills College, the Oakland Coliseum and the Oracle Arena.

MacArthur Highway goes through the southern to North end of the city, there are a series of roads leading to Zambales and Pangasinan as well as Baguio City.

In 1941, General Douglas MacArthur had declared Manila an open city before its capture.

In an attempt to protect the city and its civilians, MacArthur had placed stringent restrictions on U. S. artillery and air support.

At the time it was customary for the top-ranking cadets to be commissioned into the United States Army Corps of Engineers, so MacArthur was commissioned as a second lieutenant in that corps.

MacArthur requested a transfer to Washington, D. C. so his mother could be near Johns Hopkins Hospital.

By the mid-September MacArthur established a Forward Head Quarters in Port Moresby, and by its end his staff was setting a lunch table in both Headquarters, so often was he splitting his time between locales.

Despite his reservations about American general Douglas MacArthur as a man, Peck had long wanted to play him on film, and did so in MacArthur in 1976.

The magazine sold more than 13. 5 million copies a week at one point and was so popular that President Harry S. Truman, Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur all serialized their memoirs in its pages.

Douglas MacArthur at the time was also being considered for promotion to a special " super rank " of General of the Armies, so as to be granted operational authority over other five star officers.

Inter-service squabbling over who it should be ( the US Navy wanted Nimitz, but the US Army wanted MacArthur ) was so serious that it threatened to derail planning.

Some of the articles in the history say this was the same flag that was flown on the White House or the National Capitol on 7 December 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and at Casablanca, and so forth, also MacArthur took it up to Tokyo and flew it over his headquarters there.

Although the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Omar Bradley, was eventually awarded a fifth star, the CJCS does not receive one by right, and Bradley's award was politically motivated so as to not allow his subordinate, Douglas MacArthur, to outrank him.

After the surrender of Japan, the American occupation authorities arrested Homma, and he was extradited to the Philippines at the express order of General Douglas MacArthur so that he could be tried by an American military tribunal rather than the International Allied War Crimes Commission tasked with prosecuting Japanese war-time leaders for war crimes connected with starting the war.

Military responsibility was divided among three generals so that no powerful theater commander could emerge to challenge Johnson as MacArthur had challenged Truman.

Some weeks later ( and following a brief period in which Reynolds was temporarily replaced in the quartet by Don MacArthur ), Guard and Reynolds invited Werber to a performance of the group at the Italian Village Restaurant in San Francisco, where Werber was so impressed by the group's progress that he agreed to manage them provided they replace Gannon, in whose professional potential Werber had no faith.

" Eichelberger's I Corps headquarters was ready for overseas service, and had training in amphibious warfare, and Eichelberger had experience working with MacArthur, so Marshall selected him for the job instead.

Under the current alignment, heading southbound, State Route 73 becomes a designated toll road immediately after the Jamboree / MacArthur ramp and remains so until its southern terminus at I-5.

MacArthur eventually approved all of Fertig's promotions, even though advised not to do so by Lt.

For example, The American Joint Chiefs of Staff had authorized General MacArthur to liberate the island of Luzon, but had not given him authority to do so to any of the other Philippine islands.

Gen. James Allen, to “ teach yourself to fly .” He did so, and at 9: 30 a. m. on March 2, 1910, on the Arthur MacArthur parade field made four flights on S. C. No. 1, which included his first solo takeoff, first solo landing, and first crash.

The strategy was so successful that Japanese war czar Tojo before his death told General MacArthur that it was one of the three principal factors that defeated Japan.

Selected in 1998 as the first Inter-American Conservation Fellow by The Nature Conservancy ’ s Center for Compatible Economic Development, with the support of the MacArthur Foundation, Mr. Navarro was the first conservation leader from the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific Rim to be so honored.

The airfields recently constructed at Leyte were deemed unreliable, so potential additional airfields in Mindoro appealed to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, the commanding general of this theater of operations.

His bravery and inspired leadership was so great that at one point the brigade commander, General Douglas MacArthur, even considered making him the regimental commander, an unheard of role for a chaplain.