General Douglas MacArthur

This article is about the American general; for the municipality in the Philippines, see General MacArthur, Eastern Samar.   General of the Army Douglas MacArthur GCB, Order of the Rising Sun (January 26 1880 –  April 5 1964), was an American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II, receiving the Medal of Honor. He was designated to command the invasion of Japan in November 1945, and when that was no longer necessary he officially accepted their surrender on September 2, 1945.
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