Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life ... ways the archetype of the 19th century U.S. Army officer. Arthur was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, but at the age of four moved to Milwaukee ...

General Douglas MacArthur, 1905. Library of Congress. One of the most controversial moments in the controversial life of Douglas MacArthur came in early 1942, when he received $500,000 from the ...

O n April 5, 1964, General Douglas MacArthur died from kidney and liver diseases at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Georgia Ave. The general was 84 years old. He had been hospitalized for ...