Over and above all of MacArthur’s military accomplishments I admire him most for getting himself fired. He stood for what needed to be done in Korea. We needed a general like him in Vietnam instead of ones who went along with Robert S. Mcnamara’s corporate board control that ignored the traditional principles of warfare.
Korea is STILL a powder keg with an unhinged Napoleon wannabee in charge of North Korea’s large army and nuclear weapons.
Believe it or not, General MacArthur is revered by the Japanese of that era. A downtown Tokyo is literally a MacArthur shrine with pictures in every room.
My dad got there just as the Occupation was closing (and the Korea war was opening up.) I lived there with my folks 1951-1961 and still have contacts some 58 years later.