Speaking of the five-star General MacArthur of the United States, he was a very powerful general in the United States at that time, only lower than president Truman at that time. However, this general is a bit arrogant, and because of this, he will lose the battle later. In the end, Truman was also very angry and directly revoked MacArthur's position as a general. Let's take a look at it with Xiaobian!
As a well-known five-star general in the United States, MacArthur can be described as thunderous in the eyes of the world, especially in the minds of our people, and in summary, this is a figure who is forced to succeed and lose.
Without the gray face of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, MacArthur might not have been dismissed by US President Truman, and MacArthur's later years would not have been so bleak.
As the youngest brigadier general in U.S. history, the youngest President of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and the youngest Chief of Staff of the Army, MacArthur was one of the few generals in American history to experience two world wars.
Unlike most low-key generals, MacArthur's military career was always a flashy presence. In addition to MacArthur's excellent military resume, there is also MacArthur's unremitting self-promotion.
Simply put, MacArthur would not let go of any opportunity to present himself. Even when the Japanese army was defeated in the Philippine battlefield at the beginning of World War II, he did not forget to shout the gray wolf-like "I will come back" when he boarded the ship and fled.
And when the Americans returned to the Philippine Islands in January 1945, MacArthur did not forget to ask his journalist friends to turn on the flash before landing on the beach.
Ironically, due to a miscalculation of tidal time, MacArthur, who wanted to symbolically wade through the water, ended up landing in the Philippine Archipelago in waist-high waters.
However, compared with the fiasco of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, this failed pretense can only be regarded as a small episode in MacArthur's military career.
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War broke out, and the Korean People's Army led by Kim Il Sung launched a fierce attack on the Syngman Rhee government in South Korea, and the South Korean army collapsed, and the US troops in South Korea were also compressed in the area around Busan.
At a time when victory or defeat was almost unsustainable, on September 15, 1950, MacArthur, despite all opinions, landed on the beach in Inchon in the western part of the Korean Peninsula, cutting off the front of the People's Army, and the situation in the Korean War was reversed in an instant.
MacArthur then demanded that the UN forces move quickly north, completely eliminate the Kim Il Sung government, and occupy all of Korea.
On October 1, 1950, the United Nations forces, which ignored our solemn warnings, crossed the 38th Parallel and occupied Pyongyang on October 19, and the flames of war quickly reached the Yalu River.
The situation was extremely critical, especially when Stalin was afraid of the US military and did not dare to provide air cover to the volunteers because of the accidental bombing of the airport, the leader finally made up his mind to attack Korea.
On October 19, 1950, more than 300,000 Chinese volunteers crossed the Yalu River into northern Korea. On October 25, the vanguard of the Volunteer Army and the South Korean army encountered at Onjeong, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea officially began.
Prior to this, on September 30, 1950, the first anniversary of the founding of the Republic, the Prime Minister sternly warned the United States not to cross the 38th Line, otherwise it would not sit idly by.
The warning was conveyed to the U.S. Truman administration through the Indian ambassador, who asked MacArthur to assess the possibility of the Republic's troops.
The international community was greatly shocked by the fiasco defeats in the two battles, especially the heavy damage inflicted by the Volunteer Army in the Battle of Chosin Lake, the 1st Marine Division of the US Army's long-winning division, and the total annihilation of the US 31st Infantry Regiment, the Polar Bear Regiment.
The Truman administration was annoyed by MacArthur's incompetent command, accusing MacArthur of being too reckless and hasty in the Korean theater. But MacArthur was even more angry than Truman, and he accused the federal government of tying his hands and feet and putting the blame on the Truman administration, and the conflict between MacArthur and President Truman intensified.
Although MacArthur admitted after the defeat in the Second Campaign that the United States was engaged in a completely new war with a completely new power with great military power in a completely new situation, the self-righteous five-star general could not come up with any effective response.
Feeling humiliated, MacArthur ignored President Truman's admonition that he should fight a limited war and the Truman administration's order on March 20, 1951, asking him to negotiate with the Volunteers, and took it upon himself to send reconnaissance planes into China's airspace, and at the same time on March 24, he called for the war to be directed to China's southeast coast and dropped nuclear weapons on the Korean battlefield, and even demanded that the Truman administration allow Chiang Kai-shek's regime to invade Korea, and to call for the launching of a third world war.
MacArthur's dog jumping off the wall and extremely naïve political ideas infuriated Truman, and in order to save the Korean battlefield, the Truman administration stripped MacArthur of all military positions on April 11, 1951, under the pretext of "failing to fully support the policies of the United States and the United Nations", and handed over power to Ridgway.
To show the humiliation of the unruly veteran, Truman did not publicly issue a dismissal order, but through global broadcasts, MacArthur became the last person to know the news of the removal.
Regarding the removal of MacArthur, Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained, he said: "Extending the war to the Red Republic would involve us in a wrong war in the wrong place, at the wrong time, at the wrong enemy." "