General MacArthur lead the American forces in the Pacific theater during World War II. He fought campaigns in New Guinea and the Philippines, for which he received the Medal of Honor.
General Douglas MacArthur led the American forces in World War 2 in the Pacific region.
General MacArthur, who started in the military and finished on top of his class in 1903, have already retired from the US Army in 1937 and became Military Advisor for the Commonwealth of the Philippines. He was recalled for active duty in 1941 and became the commander of the US Army Forces in the East. As disaster struck in the Pacific when the Japanese invaded the Philippines in December 1941, General MacArthur and his troops have to withdraw stay in Bataan, Philippines until May 1942.
"I shall return" was the famous line that General MacArthur stated when he left the Philippines. And true enough, a man of his words, in September 2, 1945, he succeeded returned back to Philippines and accepted Japan's surrender.
