Mudangs have been around long before Douglas MacArthur ever came to Korea. This Korean kind of shamanism (for lack of a ...

Or for his later landing at Inchon in 1950, which did much to turn the tide of the Korean War. Many others, however, remember how seriously MacArthur, who claimed to understand the mind of his ...

The war ended where it began, at the 38th parallel. General Douglas MacArthur (third from left) tours Kimpo Air Base in Seoul, South Korea, in December 1950. At the time, MacArthur headed the ...

Regarding strategy in Korea, MacArthur admitted to no mistakes and reiterated the "decisive" actions he had been advocating since December: naval blockade of Communist China, naval and air ...

Willoughby, who had spent over a decade as MacArthur’s chief of intelligence, have the prevailing negative views confirmed. Although some attention to senior Republic of Korea officers might have ...

U.S. and South Korean troops joined family members of 1st Lt. Thomas A. Lombardo this month to rededicate the athletic field ...

Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the U. S. Eighth army in Korea and MacArthur's personal choice to succeed the late Gen. Walton H. Walker, assumed all the titles by direction of Defense ...

American military leaders, including General Douglas MacArthur, were caught off guard by the entrance of the People’s Republic of China, led by Mao Zedong, into the five-month-old Korean War.

Neither leader in Korea had been elected nor did either recognise the legitimacy of the other. The Chinese issued a warning to the UN but this was ignored. MacArthur continued to push the UN ...

MacArthur alone among them fought in all of America’s major 20th-century wars as a general — World War I, World War II, and Korea — and he was the most versatile military figure since Ulysses S.