MacArthur was indeed overrated.?
During world war II, the command of the US military in the Pacific theater has not been completely resolved. From the perspective of the course of the war, Nimitz was more suitable for leading the Pacific War, but MacArthur's seniority in the US military was too deep, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff had to always take a compromise approach: MacArthur was the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific Theater, and Nimitz commanded the US Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, as well as some of the Army, all of which were the elite of the US military.
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Judging from the course of the war, macArthur's army has been active along the coast of New Guinea, which is of little strategic significance to the overall war situation. The famous "frog jump" tactic, although proposed by MacArthur, is still implemented by the Navy and Marine Corps led by Nimitz.
Later, when the US military counterattacked Japan, there were two different opinions in the United States, one was to cross the Philippines and directly attack Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, thereby threatening the Japanese mainland; the other was to recover the Philippines. Eventually, at MacArthur's insistence, the United States adopted a second battle plan. Why? Because MacArthur made a vow when he evacuated the Philippines: I will definitely come back.
It was for MacArthur's oath that the United States drew up a battle plan to capture the Philippines. In order to smoothly implement this plan and ensure the flank security of the attacking Philippine forces, the United States launched the Battle of Palau. The Battle of Peleliu was the worst American casualty in the Pacific Theater, and it wasn't until 1947 that the battle ended. MacArthur's attack on the Philippines was met with Japanese third-rate troops, and it went well.
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Although MacArthur was well-connected in the U.S. military, he was one of the last to know about the Manhattan Project. Truman consulted European Theater Commander Eisenhower and Nimitz in the Pacific Theater of Operations on whether to bomb the Japanese homeland, while MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in the Pacific Theater, was told only the day before the bombing that the United States had developed a new weapon.
MacArthur's highest-profile performance was mainly in the transformation of Japan after the Occupation of Japan by the United States. Of course, I think MacArthur's transformation of Japan was also incomplete, and macArthur's transformation was a failure in terms of eliminating the residual poison of militarism. After the Korean War, we can also see MacArthur's command level, it is still possible to fight a dozen second-rate and third-rate countries, compared to the famous generals in World War II, he is too far behind.
The naming of the US aircraft carrier can also be seen that MacArthur is actually not high in the eyes of the US military, and his contemporaries Eisenhower and Nimitz have been named, but there has not been a battleship named after "MacArthur" in the past.