MacArthur deserved to be fired after his shameful performance driving out the Bonus Army! All show and very little else IMO.
Agreed about the bonus army. But Mac has his small but devoted fanclub. Odd to me, but it’ll never end. And we had guys like General Krueger in the Pacific. He was one of the best generals we produced in WWII. Many thought his German heritage banished him to the pacific. He was born in East Prussia and immigrated here with his family when he was young.
He was basically the mentor of what Patton became famous for. When Patton became famous for a deep sweeping maneuver in the prewar Louisiana war games, he was executing a Krueger plan. He was 10 times the General of Mac.
Lots of odd decisions were made in those days.