‘Dugout Doug’ Returns In April 1942, MacArthur was appointed supreme commander of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific and awarded the Medal of Honor for his defense of the Philippines. He spent the next two-and-a-half years commanding an island-hopping campaign in the Pacific before his ...
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