On Oct. 20, 1944, U.S. general waded into the waters at Leyte as World War II moved toward its final chapters.

General Douglas MacArthur wades through knee-deep waters on the approach to “Red Beach” located north of Palo near Tacloban on Leyte Island in the Philippines. His face is stern, defiant. He strides ...

Eighty years ago today — Oct. 20, 1944 — Gen. Douglas MacArthur made good on the promise he had made repeatedly since President Franklin Roosevelt ordered him to leave his beleaguered troops behind in ...

TOKYO – More than six decades after U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur stepped down as lord and master of Japan, he remains a towering figure of the postwar era – an enigmatic, controversial and yet ...

It almost happened twice and is long overdue. It was time for General Douglas MacArthur to be awarded the rank of General of the Armies of the United States. Though not an actual Six Star General, the ...

In the free-spoken, never-adjourned town meeting which the vast American democracy tries to resemble, one subject that had long been on people’s minds had never, until last week, been put squarely on ...