> 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.
Anzio Beachhead was not in Germany proper. Thus, MacArthur’s boast would have still made sense if he had excluded every battle from Iwo Jima onward. But, he didn’t.