[Vigilanteman]

MacArthur boasted that he lost fewer men winning the Pacific War than Eisenhower did establishing Anzio Beachhead. Mark Clark was the awful general in that operation who was said to have had little regard for the lives of his men.

MacArthur did an even better job as Governor General of Japan after the war. He turned a conquered nation into a staunch ally.

[Leaning Right]

> MacArthur boasted that he lost fewer men winning the Pacific War than Eisenhower did establishing Anzio Beachhead. <

Ah, but would that statement have been true if there had been no atomic bomb? Invading mainland Japan would have been a nasty business.

So I think MacArther just got lucky there.

By the way, I agree with you that MacArther did a fine job administering Japan after the war. A more vengeful administrator might have made the Japanese sullen and resentful, like Germans were after WW I.