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still remember the refrain of one of the
most popular barrack ballads of that day
which proclaimed most proudly that "old
soldiers never die; they just fade away."
And
like the old soldier of that ballad, I now
close my military career and just fade
away, an old soldier who tried to do his
duty as God gave him the light to see that
duty." Douglas
MacArthur, April 19,
1951 Douglas
MacArthur (January 26, 1880 April
5, 1964) General
Douglas MacArthur was an American Army
general who played very significant roles
in both World War Two and the Korean War.
As the American commander in the
Philippines at the start of the Pacific
War, he led the doomed defense of the
Philippine Islands against the Japanese.
Declaring that he would return as he was
forced to leave the Philippines, he
fulfilled his promise in 1944, as American
forces liberated the Philippines from
Japan. Five years
after the end of World War Two, MacArthur
again found himself in command of a
desperate defense as the Communist North
Koreans attacked South Korea in 1950. His
brilliant amphibious landing behind enemy
lines at Inchon forced the North Koreans
into retreat and set the stage for the
Allied invasion of North Korea that would
provoke the Chinese Communists into the
war. MacArthur
publicly called for the expansion of the
war into mainland China; against the
policies of President Harry Truman. As a
result of MacArthur's insubordination, the
president removed him from command,
leading to MacArthur's retirement from the
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