General Douglas MacArthur - Fighter For Freedom Fighter for Freedom

GENERAL DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM By FRANCIS TREVELYAN MILLER Historian History of World War America The Land We Love, Worlds Great Adventure, Life of Thomas A. Edison. Introduction By LOWELL THOMAS Illustrated THE JOHN C WINSTON COMPANY Chicago PHILADELPHIA Toronto InlrrtMtiwuil Ycws Phottt HERO OF LUZON WORLD WAR General Douglas MacArthur salutes. His gallant stand at Corregidor creates new American epic. Copyright, 1942, by ANN WOODWARD MTTXER Copyright in the United States in Great Britain and in the British IDominions and Possessions PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. GENERAL MacARTHUR FOR the second time in history the American people are giving three rousing cheers for a United States General named MacArthur It was in Nineteen Hundred that President McKin ley appointed Lieutenant-General Arthur MacArthur Military Governor of the Philippines. And it was he who finally subdued the insurgent fighters of that doughty race. His son, Douglas MacArthur, as we all know, was recently appointed a grade higher than his father, when President Roosevelt made him a full general of the Army of the United States Douglas MacArthur, who has won the admiration of the en tire world for his magnificent showing against over whelmingly superior forces, in fact against the flower of the Japanese Army. His epic stand on Bataan Penisula is not merely a matter of valor but of extraordinary military skill It takes more than bull-headed bravery to hold the lines with a comparatively small and not too well equipped force against such a mechanical Moloch as that Japa nese army in the Philippines with its terrific superi ority in the air. Few people expected this of Douglas MacArthur, because, to put itbluntly, he seemed too much like a movie type of officer, too handsome, almost too good to be true The things he accomplished were usually spectacu l ar first in his class at West Point, promoted to First Lieutenant a year after his graduation, and so forth On Funstons Expedition to Vera Cruz, it was Douglas in iv . GENERAL MACARTHUR MacArthur, then a captain, who scouted behind the Mexican lines dressed as a sholo and brought back complete information. Beginning in France as a Major on the staff he became the youngest Brigadier-General in the Army. As Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division he again achieved the spectacular by insisting on going into action with his own men, twice wounded and once gassed, but refusing to be hospitalized. When he got the Distinguished Service Cross it was for ex traordinary heroism against an armed enemy. He came out of that war with thirteen decorations for gallantry under fire, seven citations for extraordinary valor, twenty-four decorations from foreign govern ments. Later on Douglas MacArthur became the youngest Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Upon his appointment as Grand Field Marshal of the Philippines by President Quezon, his former class mate at West Point, General Hugh Johnson said Douglas MacArthur is one of the most brilliant men in public service one general who will not die in bed if theres half a chance to die elsewhere. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. FIGHTING WITH MAcARTHUR IN WORLD WAR JLL .. J. There Goes a Soldier MacArthur and MacArthurmen Be coming Folklore. Worlds Greatest War. History in the Mak ing. What Kind of Man Is MacArthur Soldier and Gentle man. The Islands MacArthur and His Men Are Giving Their Life Blood to Defend.MacArthurs and the Philippines Are Destiny. His Staff. AmericaThrows HerWeightintothe Strug gle. The Four Freedoms. Freedoms First Hero MacArthur. IL THE FIGHTING MACARTHURS A NEW AMER ICAN EPIC . . 17 First Authentic Story of the MacArthurs in America. How this Fighting Clan Came to America from Scotland. Story of Douglas MacArthurs Fighting Father, Lieut. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, Spanish-American War Days. Life in the Army. m. WITH THE MACARTHURS AT ARMY POSTS ON AMERICAN FRONTIERS 31 Life Begins for Douglas MacArthur in a Military Post at Little Rock, Arkansas...