The US Army and the Philippine-American War
In February 2024, the MacArthur Memorial hosted an event to mark the 125th anniversary of the Philippine American War. This event was in partnership with the Hampton Roads Chapter of the Filipino Amer...
12 Mar 202421min
The Admiralty Islands Campaign
From February 29 – May 18, 1944, a thousand troopers of the First Cavalry Division, a few United States Navy destroyers and a handful of “Fighting Seabees” defied the odds and seized the Admiralty Isl...
29 Feb 202427min
11th Airborne: Angels Against the Sun
Former paratrooper, James M. Fenelon, author of Angels Against the Sun: A WWII Saga of Grunts, Grit, and Brotherhood, joined the MacArthur Memorial Podcast to discuss the story of the 11th Airborne an...
20 Feb 202442min
The Buffalo Soldiers and the Philippine-American War
The Philippine-American War (1899-1902) was a controversial war. Many Americans did not support it, including anti-imperialists like Mark Twain. Others did. In response to the war, the English writer ...
25 Jan 202429min
The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 and then the 1941 invasion of Soviet occupied-Poland brought an almost unimaginable scale of suffering to the people of Poland. And yet, in the midst of such terror...
9 Jan 202431min
MacArthur Q&A - Part II
In this MacArthur Q&A Part II, MacArthur Memorial historians Jim Zobel and Amanda Williams answer questions posed by MacArthur Memorial Podcast listeners. When did the MacArthur family settle in Ame...
1 Jan 202429min
Arthur MacArthur Jr. and Emilio Aguinaldo
In 1901, during the Philippine-American War, the Governor-General of the Philippines, Brigadier General Arthur MacArthur Jr., father of Douglas MacArthur, approved a daring plan by Frederick Funston t...
18 Des 202337min
The No. 1 British Flying Training School
During World War II thousands of British cadets learned to fly at six civilian training schools across the southern United States. The first and largest of the schools was in Terrell, Texas. More than...
1 Des 202318min
