MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

President Harry S. Truman delivering a speech and presenting a Distinguished Service Medal to General Douglas MacArthur. In the foreground, from left to right, facing the camera: Press Secretary Charles Ross, Special Assistant to the President Averell Harriman, General Robert Landry, Admiral Arthur Radford (partly obscured by Truman), President Truman, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar Bradley, General Harry Vaughan, Charles Murphy, David Bell, General Wallace, Graham, and Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk.

President Harry S. Truman (left)shakes hands with General Douglas MacArthur after stepping off the presidential plane, The Independence, onto Wake Island for a historic conference on Communist aggression in the Far East and restoration of peace in war-torn Korea. Other in the photo are unidentified. From: Gordon B. Cone.

General Douglas MacArthur leaving the Dai Ichi Building in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

From left to right, General Douglas MacArthur, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, and Colonel Wheeler descend the front steps as they leave the Dai Ichi Building in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Front page of newspaper, the Journal-American, dated August 31, 1949, with headline, "MacArthur says U.S. must hold Japan, Stop Red Grab."

General Douglas MacArthur, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, and Colonel Wheeler leave SCAP-GHQ - the Dai Ichi Building, Tokyo, Japan. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur meet for the first time at Wake Island.

Color portrait of General of the Army Douglas A. MacArthur, (1880-1964), Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command, Korea, 1950-1951.

Computer photo in color of President Harry S. Truman (center in blue suit) greeting General Douglas MacArthur (next to Truman) on Wake Island when they met there on Oct. 15, 1950. The other people are unidentified, although the donor stated that Secretary of the Army Frank Pace and General Omar Bradley are in the picture. The picture was taken by Edward E. Swofford who was Station Operations Manager at Wake Island for Pan American World Airways at that time. The photo was copied from a slide that had not been stored adequately and had deteriorated from the humid salt air.

Cartoon, entitled "The voice of experience," by Newton Pratt, depicting former President Harry S. Truman, General Douglas MacArthur, and Senator Robert Taft.