Get the whole story on that, He was ordered out by FDR.
oh yeah. In that plane included were his intelligence and radio team who RECEIVED THE MESSAGE TO STAND DOWN and allow the Japs to invade the Philippines, while the FDR hid the fact that they already deciphered the Japanese code system ...
while telling the American public “nope, we were surprised by the Japs and doggonit, we could not break the code because if we did , we would have defended Pearl Harbor (PUKE) “
Beat me to it. FDR and Marshall recognized the military expertise of MacArthur and ordered him to leave. He probably wasn't as great a general as some of his armchair critics on here, but still...