MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

General Douglas MacArthur (right) and Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright (left). Wainwright served under MacArthur as the senior field commander of Filipino and United States forces responsible for resisting the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.

Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder (right) is shown with General Douglas MacArthur.

The presidential car carrying President Harry S. Truman (backseat, left) and General Douglas MacArthur (backseat, right) during Truman's trip to Wake Island. All other individuals are unidentified.

General Omar Bradley (right) with General Douglas MacArthur (left) at the airport at Wake Island. All other individuals are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) with General Douglas MacArthur (left) in the back of an automobile at Wake Island.

General Douglas MacArthur boarding a plane in Wake Island after his visit with President Harry S. Truman.

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).