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Supreme commander : MacArthur's triumph in Japan
A combination of political history, military biography, and business management reveals how General Douglas MacArthur defied expectations to rebuild Japan successfully after World War II.
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Cheongcheon 1950
Blick ins BuchSiegesgewiss plante General Douglas MacArthur, Oberkommandierenderder UN-Streitkrafte in Korea, eine groangelegte Offensive, die einen kraftvollen Vorsto aller Truppen nach Norden vorsah. Am chinesischen Grenzfluss Yalu sollte der nordkoreanische Gegner endgultig zerschlagen und der Koreakrieg noch vor Ablauf des Jahres 1950 beendet werden. Wahrend die UN-Truppen in der bergigen Landschaft beiderseits des Flusses Cheongcheon vorruckten, formierte sich unerkannt ein gewaltiger chinesischer Gegenangriff, der die ambitionierte Offensive in eine schwere Niederlage verwandelte. Wir stehen einem vollig neuen Krieg gegenuber lautete das Urteil MacArthurs, der erkannte, dass die chinesische Intervention fortan die Strategie in Korea nachhaltig verandern wurde. Die Schlacht am Cheongcheon ist damit nicht nur ein Wendepunkt des Koreakrieges, sondern auch ein Schlusselereignis des Kalten Krieges. Oliver Heyn analysiert die taktischen Entscheidungen der Generale ebenso wie die Erfahrungen und Emotionen der Soldaten, die in extremer Kalte um jedes Stuck Boden rangen. Am Ende steht die Einsicht, dass trotz uberlegener Technik und Material der Faktor Mensch die entscheidende Komponente auf dem Schlachtfeld bleibt.
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Truman & MacArthur : policy, politics, and the hunger for honor and renown
Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the
very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over
the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the
army of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea mostly destroyed, Chinese military
forces crossed the Yalu River. They routed the combined United Nations forces and
pushed them on a long retreat down the Korean peninsula. Hoping to strike a decisive
blow that would collapse the Chinese communist regime in Beijing, General Douglas
MacArthur, the commander of the Far East Theater, pressed the administration of
President Harry S. Truman for authorization to launch an invasion of China across
the Taiwan straits. Truman refused; MacArthur began to argue his case in the press,
a challenge to the tradition of civilian control of the military. He moved his
protest into the partisan political arena by supporting the Republican opposition to
Truman in Congress. This violated the President's fundamental tenet that war and
warriors should be kept separate from politicians and electioneering. On April 11,
1951 he finally removed MacArthur from command. Viewing these
events through the eyes of the participants, this book explores partisan politics in
Washington and addresses the issues of the political power of military officers in
an administration too weak to carry national policy on its own accord. It also
discusses America's relations with European allies and its position toward Formosa
(Taiwan), the long-standing root of the dispute between Truman and
MacArthur.
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MacArthur in Asia
General Douglas MacArthur's storied career is inextricably linked to Asia. His father, Arthur, served as Military Governor of the Philippines while Douglas was a student at West Point, and the younger MacArthur would serve several tours of duty in that country over the next four decades, becoming friends with several influential Filipinos, including the country's future president, Emanuel L. Quezon. In 1935, he became Quezon's military advisor, a post he held after retiring from the U.S. Army and at the time of Japan's invasion of 1941. As Supreme Commander for the Southwest Pacific, MacArthur led American forces throughout the Pacific War. He officially accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and would later oversee the Allied occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951. He then led the UN Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951, until he was dismissed from his post by President Truman.
InMacArthur in Asia, the distinguished Japanese historian Hiroshi Masuda offers a new perspective on the American icon, focusing on his experiences in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea and highlighting the importance of the general's staff-the famous \"Bataan Boys\" who served alongside MacArthur throughout the Asian arc of his career-to both MacArthur's and the region's history. First published to wide acclaim in Japanese in 2009 and translated into English for the first time, this book uses a wide range of sources-American and Japanese, official records and oral histories-to present a complex view of MacArthur, one that illuminates his military decisions during the Pacific campaign and his administration of the Japanese Occupation.
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December 8, 1941 : MacArthur's Pearl Harbor
Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, “another Pearl Harbor” of even more devastating consequence for American arms occurred in the Philippines, 4,500 miles to the west. On December 8, 1941, at 12.35 p.m., 196 Japanese Navy bombers and fighters crippled the largest force of B-17 four-engine bombers outside the United States and also decimated their protective P-40 interceptors. The sudden blow allowed the Japanese to rule the skies over the Philippines, removing the only effective barrier that stood between them and their conquest of Southeast Asia. This event has been called “one of the blackest days in American military history.”
How could the army commander in the Philippines—the renowned Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur—have been caught with all his planes on the ground when he had been alerted in the small hours of that morning of the Pearl Harbor attack and warned of the likelihood of a Japanese strike on his forces? In this book, author William H. Bartsch attempts to answer this and other related questions.
Bartsch draws upon twenty-five years of research into American and Japanese records and interviews with many of the participants themselves, particularly survivors of the actual attack on Clark and Iba air bases. The dramatic and detailed coverage of the attack is preceded by an account of the hurried American build-up of air power in the Philippines after July, 1941, and of Japanese planning and preparations for this opening assault of its Southern Operations.
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The most dangerous man in America : the making of Douglas MacArthur
At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him for the dustbin of history. Yet despite his flaws, MacArthur is remembered as a brilliant commander whose combined-arms operation in the Pacificthe first in the history of warfaresecured America's triumph in World War II and changed the course of history. In The Most Dangerous Man in America, celebrated historian Mark Perry examines how this paradox of a man overcame personal and professional challenges to lead his countrymen in their darkest hour. As Perry shows, Franklin Roosevelt and a handful of MacArthur's subordinates made this feat possible, taming MacArthur, making him useful, and finally making him victorious. A gripping, authoritative biography of the Pacific Theater's most celebrated and misunderstood commander, The Most Dangerous Man in America reveals the secrets of Douglas MacArthur's successand the incredible efforts of the men who made it possible.
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Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease: Open vs. Endovascular Approach
The manifestation of peripheral vascular disease in the aortoiliac segment is common, and thus its management is a frequent part of the day-to-day work for a vascular surgeon or interventionalist. A disease pattern including the common femoral artery has been shown to be treated well with a hybrid approach; however, with significant obstructive disease beyond the femoral arteries, most papers suggest an improved patency long term with open bypass to treat the inflow disease. Multidisciplinary discussion involving vascular surgery, vascular interventionalists, cardiologists and primary care physicians will likely be the best way to truly risk stratify and define the best therapy for the individual patient.
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Mexicans in World War II
Based on Luzon, 201st Mexican Squadron flew long-distance fighter sweeps plus a mission to support a battle ship bound for Okinawa, in the event of kamikaze attacks. During the epochal violence in Mexico, along the Texas frontier daredevil U.S. government pilot Jimmy Doolittle in 1919, flew a biwing DeHavilland 4B, patrolling the border against incursions by Pancho Villa and his Golden Cavalry. On the Atlantic in 1940 an antiquated bomber of the Mexican Air Force on anti-submarine patrol near Tampico spotted a U-boat. In 1942 and 1943, when U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic sank Mexico's government-owned oil tankers leaving Tampico in the Gulf of Mexico, the tonnage was headed to the U.S. Whether the Allies and Hitler-ravaged Britain needed crude oil or fuel oil for war production, petroleum-rich, tungsten-rich Mexico was crucial to President Roosevelt's focus on the Republic of Mexico.
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Heroic Measures for an American Hero: Attempting to save the Life of General Douglas MacArthur
General Douglas MacArthur was a towering public figure on an international stage for the first half of the 20th century. He was healthy throughout his life but developed a series of medical problems when he entered his 80s. This article reviews the General's medical care during two separate life-threatening medical crises that required surgical intervention. The first episode occurred in 1960 when MacArthur presented with renal failure due to an obstructed prostate. Four years later after his 84th birthday, MacArthur developed bile duct obstruction from common duct stones. He underwent an uncomplicated cholecystectomy and common duct exploration but developed variceal bleeding requiring an emergent splenorenal shunt. His terminal event was precipitated by strangulated bowel in long-ignored very large inguinal hernias. MacArthur died, despite state-of-the-art surgical intervention, due to renal failure and hepatic coma.
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