MacArthur was once a "mother man", and was also his original wife Green, and he found true love at the age of 57! MacArthur's sad past: Mom is very "chicken baby", ex-wife is too windy!
When it comes to the battlefield star of World War II, the five-star general of the United States Army, Douglas MacArthur, can definitely be on the list. He is a unique presence for the U.S. Army.
Born in 1880, MacArthur was a native of Arkansas and admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1899. Promoted to colonel during World War I and went to France to fight. In June 1919, at the age of 39, MacArthur was appointed president of the West Point Military Academy, becoming the youngest principal at West Point since its founding. He served as Chief of Staff of the Army from the 1920s to the 1930s.
During World War II, he served as commander of the U.S. Far East Army and commander of the Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Theater. In 1944 MacArthur was awarded the rank of five-star general in the Army. On September 2, 1945, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, he presided over the surrender ceremony for Japan and signed it on behalf of the Allies. During this period, he was awarded 13 medals for bravery.
After World War II, as the supreme commander of the Allied forces in Japan and the commander of the Far East Army, as the governor-general, he implemented a series of reforms to Japan and rebuilt the fragmented Japan into a "democratic country".
In the eyes of the American public, he is more like a figure that is almost mythical and legendary. In fact, all this is just the result of his true appearance being artificially magnified because it is out of reach, and the real MacArthur also has a lot of black history that is inhumane to the world. For example, he was killed by two women— her mother, Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur, and his ex-wife, Louise Cromwell Brooks.
MacArthur was the standard "second generation of the military.". MacArthur's father, Named Arthur MacArthur Jr., served as a three-star lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and fought in the American Civil War and the Spanish American War. Inspired by his father, MacArthur decided to become a soldier.
In May 1875, Arthur MacArthur Jr. married Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur. The two married with three sons, with MacArthur in third place. The eldest, Arthur MacArthur III, later served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, and Malcolm MacArthur died at the age of 5.
Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur was a very strong woman, and in her eyes, her husband was an indisputable. Because, she has always stubbornly believed that her husband did not do his best to earn the honor he deserved (although he had received many awards, including the Medal of Honor). In order to win the honor she had for her husband, she had been negotiating with the U.S. Army and military on behalf of her husband for many years, until her poor husband died, and this entangled farce ended.
After the death of Arthur MacArthur Jr., Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur set her sights on her third son, Douglas MacArthur. Since then, MacArthur has lived in the shadow of his mother. To use the current Internet buzzword to describe, MacArthur's mother is very "chicken baby", MacArthur once became a standard "baby mother man". Because, his mother Mary has been giving MacArthur chicken blood and participating in every process of his growth.
For example, when MacArthur was studying at West Point, Mary, worried that MacArthur was not used to life at the military school, lived directly in the Tyer Hotel on campus, and her son's dormitory was within her sight. Every day she watched her son in silence, in the direction of his dorm room, and did so for four years until MacArthur graduated.
Inspired by his mother, MacArthur graduated with a score of 98.43, setting a record for a West Point graduation score (said to be the highest score among West Point cadets in 25 years). After graduation, his mother fought hard for the first step of his life into the barracks, and as a result, as soon as he left the school, MacArthur was appointed as a second lieutenant in the Engineering and Technical Corps, thus embarking on a professional military path.
Although MacArthur became a young military officer, the figure of his mother did not disappear from his eyes in the rest of his career, but constantly harassed and stimulated him to achieve "greater achievements". She wrote to senior officials urging her son to be promoted and promoted, and followed her son step by step from one boring position to another. In order to fulfill his mother's wishes, MacArthur had to do his best, and in order to make progress, he did not even consider personal marriage.
In 1922, at the age of 42, MacArthur was finally appointed commander of the Manila Military District in the Philippines. After becoming the commander of the station, MacArthur wanted to find a woman to start a family and live his own two-person world in order to get rid of his mother's control.
In 1922, MacArthur married a slender divorced woman who often mingled in café social circles, named Louise Cromwell Brooks. Louise had persuaded MacArthur to leave the army and join the banking world, but MacArthur almost went into action. When her mother, Mary, learned of this, she refused to attend their wedding in protest.
Because the two spent less and more time together after marriage, MacArthur's wife could not bear the loneliness, and when she was stationed overseas, she continued the social life of pleasure-seeking before her marriage. When the newspaper's gossip columnist reported the incident publicly as a joke, MacArthur rushed back to the United States and filed a divorce lawsuit with his wife. It was 1929, and MacArthur was 49 years old.
MacArthur's divorce incident became a talk of conversation after dinner for a while, but only because of the taste of the news and the "Defamation Act", the much-hyped peach incident was covered up by time, and MacArthur was not publicly disclosed to be a husband wearing a green hat and abandoned - how can a commander lead the army if he can't get together?
In August 1930, MacArthur received a call from the Secretary of war, and President Hoover decided to make him chief of staff. MacArthur considered that at that time when the world economic crisis was in full swing, the pacifist trend was on the rise, and military expenditures would inevitably be reduced, and he was afraid of making a thankless contribution, and he had the intention of resigning. His mother persuaded him to accept, claiming that "if you show cowardice, your father will be ashamed of it too." ”
In November 1930, MacArthur accepted the provisional rank of four-star general in the Army and was sworn in as chief of staff of the United States Army. After Roosevelt became president in 1933, MacArthur continued to serve as Chief of Staff of the Army.
In 1935, MacArthur's term as Army Chief of Staff expired and he was transferred to the rank of Major General as military adviser to President Quezon of the Philippine government. In August 1936, he received the rank of Marshal of the Philippines. In 1937, he retired from the United States Army.
After retiring from the army, MacArthur married Gene Marie Fairchloss MacArthur in April of that year. MacArthur was 57 years old. The two had a son, and MacArthur finally lived a normal life as a normal man.
MacArthur's second wife, Faircross, was very supportive of MacArthur's career, and she kept their home very methodical, although there was a certain difference in age between the two, but the relationship between the two was very deep.
In 1941, when World War II broke out, MacArthur was conscripted back into the army, thus embarking on another glorious journey in his life.
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