The son of an American Civil War hero, MacArthur served as chief U.S. military adviser to the Philippines before World War ... of his command in 1951. He died in Washington, D.C., on April 5 ...

General Douglas MacArthur, 1905. Library of Congress. Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life, from cradle to grave, in the United States Army. He spent ... died just days before his birth in ...

Douglas MacArthur delivered his farewell address to Congress on this day in history, April 19, 1951, uttering the famous line, "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." Eight days before the ...