Douglas MacArthur short biography
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Douglas MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880 and died on April 5, 1964. He was an American military man who acted as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the South Pacific during the Second World War. In fact, he came from a military family and when he was very young he stood out, being the first of his promotion. It also had a prominent role in the First World War. In fact, during the interwar period, he stood out for modernizing and expanding the tactics and strategies of the US military. In fact, in 1935, when the Philippines achieved semi-independence from the United States, he was sent to Philippines to assist the new Philippine government in the creation of an army patrio (an army Philippine).
During this time, in 1937, that Japan, with its blitzkrieg against Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific that Douglas MacArthur is forced to flee from Philippines and it is then as we say, appointed supreme chief in the allied armed forces in the peaceful. He got the first victories from him in defending the Japanese invasion of Australia. Then, commanding the American counter offensive and reconquering, after a few years, Borneo, the Philippines, Nova Guinea... So much so, that in 1945 he is appointed as the supreme chief who will carry out the land invasion of Japan. As you well know, as a result of the launching of the two nuclear bombs (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), Japan surrenders unconditionally and therefore it is not necessary to invade its territory. It is then that he is one of the people who will be present at the signing of the surrender by the emperor. It is also Douglas MacArthur, the one who pressures a lot for the figure of the emperor to be declared untouchable during the trials and thus be the central figure in the reconstruction of the country of Japan. He believed that, if there was an emperor, Japanese society would be more cohesive and would be more inclined to accept the occupation of its own territory.
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