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My friend, who served on the USS Herbert C. Jones, said that they got paid with money only TWICE while they were fighting in Anzio and North Africa. (The rest of the time they were given cigarettes, with which you could trade for ANYTHING (from a beer or a hot meal to prostitutes).) He was rather offended that there were government pukes who miraculously showed up the two times they actually had money and tried to convince them, THE FIGHTING FORCES, to buy war bonds! I agree with his reaction.

Douglas MacArthur “Eisenhower is the best clerk I ever had” Eisenhower response . “I studied dramatics for seven years working for MacArthur".

The guy you didn't recognize is King Trout. He does conspiracy theory videos mainly. They were joking that his glasses looked like Dahmer's.

I think nowdays people dont even push back against this sentiment, i feel like most people know that macarthur wasnt really that good. It used to be that people defend him but not anymore.

The guy on the left is king_trout . He does alot of history videos as well you should look him up.

Yeah and most of you yanks general are overrated

MacArthur is not just overrated. MacArthur sucked.

On the topic of the Korean War you should do the Fat Electrician video about operation Paul Bunyan

Im shocked they didnt bring up the Bonus army fiasco. He literally disregarded 2 presidential orders to pull back and kept attacking. What is more shocking is that both Patton and Eisenhower took part in this operation. Hell Eisenhower lied during the report and investigation to cover MacArthur's ass and later in his memoirs he admitted it. Hell he was the alternate choice for dictator in the Business plot.

He should not be considered an American hero after what he did to the bonus army.

I'm Roman and I live in Rome ...so....

The guy in the far left seat is "King Trout." I believe that is the name of his RUclips channel. Also, when he first sat down, Elle was commenting about the glasses he was wearing and he mentioned "Jeffrey Dahmer" and was also why KT mentioned later as a joke the Elle would be in his freezer.

Probably why he has a 'media personality' modifier in HOI4 lol

The difference was Patton knew what he was doing

I wouldn't say that china showed particularly great military prowess anymore than the soviet forces showed during WWII. Mainly China showed a severe lack of logistical power for waging a war less than a hundred miles from its own land border and an extreme disregard for human life.

2:45 IDK about that Molotov Cocktails ain't exactly the most complicated things to make. Fuse (burning rag), flammable liquid bonus points if it is explody, clay jars that break upon impact; load them in the trebuchet and launch. Hand grenadiers where a thing for a long time.

The glasses schtick was the guy looking like Dahmer, which is what the part about his saying Eli being in his freezer was about.

Also, if I'm not mistaken when MacArthur returned to the Philippines he chose to land on a safe beach and avoid conflict for a photo op vs aiding troops actually in combat. It's interesting but even his dad was like the top general during the war against the Philippines when we were screwing them over.

I have never seen a case of people who actually knew him or researched what he actually did, or had experienced his authority, as ever actually liking him, they all freaking hate him. He is routinely responsible for being reckless and getting people killed and wasting lives for no reason, and its not just the Philippines and the Korean War. (like the poisoning of his own men for example) Most of his capacity that was successful was purely because of the people that were under him for which he kept taking credit for but contributed nothing to.

I think i read or listened to a preston steeart podcast that marines hated him for pelilu because MacArthur needed that island and it was not that important in the end.

Vietnam and Cambodia is probably about Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge. It's very complex, fully proxy war stuff again but ultimately turned into the Khmer Rouge eventially being super Anti-Vietnam, committing not just genocide against anyone with education, but also against the ethnic Vietnamese and the Vietnamese in turn essentially just being fed up and taking over the country and replacing the government, plus maybe overstaying their welcome in terms of occupation a bit. Though tbh... That cannot possibly have been worse than having Pol Pot remain in charge..

He was stationed in Australia, he wasn't very well liked by us, he called the young inexperienced Australian troops cowards, they were fighting against a much larger experienced force in New Guinea under horrific conditions, they prevailed in the end after being pushed back but not all the way to Port Moresbey which was their main objective to protect I found this article which I think describes him fairly well. MacArthur possessed other character flaws that should have excluded him from senior command. He was a cold man who distanced himself from his troops and he showed an indifference to their welfare that at times was callous. He was a conceited man, with a passion for self-glorification, and incapable of admitting serious military errors or learning from them. His dread of removal from command verged on paranoia. These character failings caused him to blame his commanding officers in the field and his troops for his own errors of judgment.

MacArthur was in charge of the troops that Hoover sent to quell the veterans who wanted their benefits earlier than the 1940’s. He was a show boat but as opposed to Patton MacArthur was a general in Chief. FDR did not want MacArthur in charge of the European theater.MacArthur thought he would be President. He was too me centric to be President.

18:00 Maybe for Isreali food they are referring to traditional Jewish delis? That'd make it probably Central and Eastern European related Foods (Germany, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, etc.), but with it's own secret extra something added and everything pork related removed 😀 And +5 cred when their ancestors actually spoke Yddish, rather just slavic languages. And +20 if the current staff still speaks it.

It’s Funny how you say ”These guys” because it isn’t even several people, it’s one dude

Read or listen to Generals in the Making by Benjamin Runkle. He analyzes America's top generals of WW2 and he does not pull any punches when it comes to MacArthur.

Let’s not forget he had a 16year old girlfriend in Washington DC… he was a pedo on top of everything else.

Personally I think a lot of history is overrated by modern perspective; in large part due to media distorting the truth, failing to actually capture the reality of the moment, or instilling an unhealthy hero worship in key figures. The objective truth is that none of us can actually know what was happening in that moment or what was known but would never be reported. MacArthur, like anyone, had pros and cons. Some think he was way ahead of his time and others didn't. Ultimately, we'll only have our opinions and the opinions of survivors.

he said that he'd get a Medal of Honor even if it cost him a C-bag (very large duffle bag) full of dog tags (each dog tag means somebody died). Also note that we were cornered in the peninsula until the USMC arrived.

As a 21 year infantry vet with extensive deployment time (12 years) and combat experience (57 months), I can agree that he was overrated. Tactically, MacArthur wasn't bad but the guy was also kind of an idiot and arrogant. Especially when it came to strategic thinking and balancing political/PR issues against tactical ones. Now, granted he was also a victim of his time. So things like his incessant demands to ALWAYS use nukes against anyone he was talking about fighting may have changed as humanity as a whole became more aware of the dangers, but it also highlights the issues the man had. He was addicted to the glory, spotlight, and the 'tough guy' routine. Which is a double edged sword. There's a time and place for that behavior and ego. The picture he took with the Japanese Emperor after the surrender is one. Showing the greater Japanese public that the Emperor wasn't a 'god' and in fact MacArthur towered above him in physical and mental presence was a huge PR win. But then you also had MacArthur asking for really stupid stuff or pulling some really dumb stunts in chasing that spotlight. Bypassing Mindanao in favor of Leyte, thus obviating the need for the Peleliu runway that the Marines were already in the process of taking negated the lives sacrificed. MacArthur ordering his forces to unleash a hellish bombardment of Seoul in the 50's and then deciding himself to try and push past the 38th Parallel in some insane desire to capture the whole peninsula ultimately proved to be a major downfall. At the end of the day, I think it's important to represent the man as he was, not the hero of legend he apparently thought he was. He was an intelligent and capable warrior, but suffered from massive ego and hubris. In the incidents where that bravado was needed he excelled, but outside of those occurrences, he failed in epic fashion. Still, he is an important contributor to his time period and had his rightful place in those accomplishments.

I guess Patton should be on that list too.

McArthur is definitely overrated. He was just a glory hound who decided to pick and choose which orders he followed and didn’t care about his troops. If he was in charge 20 yrs later he probably would have gotten fragged by his own troops like many other officers did in Vietnam

im sorry, ak15? these twitter users dont even know the name of the gun

MacArthur is garbage and time ghost history's ww2 week by week of the war really demonstrates that during his mismanagement of the Philippines. Also his ego led to a completely unnecessary island hopping campaign because he couldn't work with the navy. He used the press to make himself into a "hero".

Invading Lousiana would be an absolute HELL. Not only do you have to beat Cajuns in a swamp, you gotta worry about gators, poisonous snakes, and malaria.

McArthur was well-liked by American civilians because he worked harder on his image than he did on doing his actual job. Just the fact that the men under him hated his guts says *everything.* It's like judging a person based on how they treat the staff. You have to *suck* as a leader for entire *branches* of the armed forces to hate you.

Chesty Puller would have ignored that order

I may be way outta pocket, but i always agreed with the point my Great Uncle would make about the point that he believed Bataan was so horrific was because the troops were disorganized and the Japanese learned that their leader had cut and run for all intents and purposes. Between the troops themselves surrendering as well as the understanding that the American leadership had retreated, Japanese troops lost any shred of honor that the Bushido Code would still have allowed the POWs Obv it's not all his fault, but was a major factor

It would have been interesting if this war kicked off 2 years later, because the incoming President would have been Eisenhower, MacArthur's counterpart in WWII. Idk if he would have been as insubordinate to him as he was to Truman. Also, Mac's nuclear strategy would probably have worked in Korea, BUT I really don't know how the 1950's plays out with nukes used as battlefield tools being established as doctrine, rather than a theory that no one ever tested. Also by 1952 we would have the hydrogen bomb, which escalates that even further

If he had stood down has ordered it could have saved 100s of thousands of lives.

Great review. I'll be honest, I've never put much thought into the personal growth and learning a lesson from WWII affecting his actions in Korea. Considering this has made me think of the WWII policy for submarine commanders. That being they were only allowed to serve a max of 4 war patrols; any more than that, they would either become too passive or too reckless. Perhaps the same thing happens to generals? If so, MacArthur was definitely too reckless.

But then you look at postwar Japan and the hood her did there. It’s strange.

WW1 as leader of the 42nd Division he did well at Meuse-Argonne when others failed. I had family who fought in the Pacific and both of them HATED MacArthur, no respect or anything for him.

1:36 That happened to the Dad of a friend of mine. Old rural village in Germany, was important during medieval times. Oldest finds are 2nd century and the village was first mentioned in the 900s, was along a crossing of trading routes, had Monastery and was the location of Synods around 1000. He wanted to remove some old stable (built solid of stone etc. with actual foundations) and wanted to build a second house there on his property for his daughters family to live in. So whe the stable was taken down and they wanted to remove the foundation, they found that those were actually even older walls. In the end the contractors were not allowed to work anymore and the closest university dug around there for 6-7 months, turning his backyard into an excavation site. And don't even start believe he had any right to prevent that or be compensated in any way... After everything was documented they were allowed to build next to it and the dig was covered with earth again. Everything was delayed by another year and he reckons it cost the family around 15k in contractor deposits and extra rent that his daughter had to keep paying in her old house. He just said next time he does anything on his property first, he'll ask a friend with a digger first to test if anything is there. If there is, just close it down again and shut up about it.

I think my teachers touch on it some but they didn't really touch on it a lot I think which I think is awkward. Maybe some of my teachers were communist sympathizers.

You are right no army in the world is innocent of not committing war crimes. Even America. But we try not to make it a habit. And we try to do things for the right reasons. It's not like we were Germany and invaded the country for really no reason whatsoever there was always a reason to invade a country. But I think our troops here in America are typically pretty good about not committing war crimes and they are pretty disciplined I think but it still does happen.

Drachinifel in his admiral king video talked about admiral king had his work cut out to keep mcarthur in check

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AI g had his mate called Dave who you never see 😂😂

"I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President ... I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail." Harry Truman