wars end

[namvet]

sept 2nd 1945 tokyo bay. the surrender marks the end of wwII

 

[whitehall]

See any Marines standing behind MacArthur? Mac hated Marines ever since they saved his sorry ass in WW1 at Belleau Wood. Ever the showman MacArthur elbows his way into the spotlight and the Marines who did most of the fighting in the Pacific stand backstage. Who would have known MacArthur lost his entire Army At Battan and Corrigador and spent the rest of the war in comfort in Australia?

 

[regent]

See any Marines standing behind MacArthur? Mac hated Marines ever since they saved his sorry ass in WW1 at Belleau Wood. Ever the showman MacArthur elbows his way into the spotlight and the Marines who did most of the fighting in the Pacific stand backstage. Who would have known MacArthur lost his entire Army At Battan and Corrigador and spent the rest of the war in comfort in Australia?

So the Republicans selected Ike to run for president and not MacArthur. Better choice, but Mac was ever the apple of many a Republican eye. It was one of FDR's mistakes to send for him, but America needed heroes and Mac was it.
Stick with Mac and never get back.

 

[whitehall]

See any Marines standing behind MacArthur? Mac hated Marines ever since they saved his sorry ass in WW1 at Belleau Wood. Ever the showman MacArthur elbows his way into the spotlight and the Marines who did most of the fighting in the Pacific stand backstage. Who would have known MacArthur lost his entire Army At Battan and Corrigador and spent the rest of the war in comfort in Australia?

So the Republicans selected Ike to run for president and not MacArthur. Better choice, but Mac was ever the apple of many a Republican eye. It was one of FDR's mistakes to send for him, but America needed heroes and Mac was it.
Stick with Mac and never get back.

It seems that the republican party was just as infatuated with the MacArthur legacy as anyone else at the time. He looked like a sure winner and that's all that counts but it seems that the Korean War Vets had a big impact on the final selection and "Dougout Doug" came in second. MacArthur denied that he sought a 3rd party nomination but he was on the ballot running against Ike.

 

[regent]

See any Marines standing behind MacArthur? Mac hated Marines ever since they saved his sorry ass in WW1 at Belleau Wood. Ever the showman MacArthur elbows his way into the spotlight and the Marines who did most of the fighting in the Pacific stand backstage. Who would have known MacArthur lost his entire Army At Battan and Corrigador and spent the rest of the war in comfort in Australia?

So the Republicans selected Ike to run for president and not MacArthur. Better choice, but Mac was ever the apple of many a Republican eye. It was one of FDR's mistakes to send for him, but America needed heroes and Mac was it.
Stick with Mac and never get back.

It seems that the republican party was just as infatuated with the MacArthur legacy as anyone else at the time. He looked like a sure winner and that's all that counts but it seems that the Korean War Vets had a big impact on the final selection and "Dougout Doug" came in second. MacArthur denied that he sought a 3rd party nomination but he was on the ballot running against Ike.

By the way that Mo was a navy ship, seems the navy should have had some say about the Marines being present.

 

[Sunni Man]

Who would have known MacArthur lost his entire Army At Battan and Corrigador and spent the rest of the war in comfort in Australia?

And for that MacArthur received the Medal of Honor. ..

 

[whitehall]

So the Republicans selected Ike to run for president and not MacArthur. Better choice, but Mac was ever the apple of many a Republican eye. It was one of FDR's mistakes to send for him, but America needed heroes and Mac was it.
Stick with Mac and never get back.

It seems that the republican party was just as infatuated with the MacArthur legacy as anyone else at the time. He looked like a sure winner and that's all that counts but it seems that the Korean War Vets had a big impact on the final selection and "Dougout Doug" came in second. MacArthur denied that he sought a 3rd party nomination but he was on the ballot running against Ike.

By the way that Mo was a navy ship, seems the navy should have had some say about the Marines being present.

I'm using Robert Coram's biography "Brute" about Marine Genera Victor Krulak as a reference but he gives plenty of hard evidence that the US Navy wasn't crazy about sharing the limelight with The Marine Corps either. It wasn't until 1979 that a Marine representative was allowed to sit at the JCS table.