MacArthur Q&A - Part I
In this latest episode, MacArthur Memorial historians Jim Zobel and Amanda Williams answer questions posed by MacArthur Memorial Podcast listeners. Why did he not like President Truman?Was there ev...
18 Jan 202333min
MacArthur and the Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
In 1925, the court-martial of Billy Mitchell captured national attention. At the center of the controversy was Billy Mitchell, a man who is today recognized as the father of the United States Air Forc...
17 Dec 202221min
December 7, 1941 Medal of Honor Recipients
When most people think about December 7, 1941, they think about Pearl Harbor. They think about the USS Arizona. They think about Battleship Row. But can you name a Medal of Honor recipient from that a...
7 Dec 202240min
The Occupation of Japan and Women's Suffrage
On August 18. 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving American women the right to vote. When the Occupation of Japan began in 1945, the Nineteenth Amendment was a ...
14 Nov 202234min
MacArthur and Baseball
In his autobiography, General MacArthur summed up the WWII island hopping strategy with a quote from baseball legend Willie Keeler: “hit ‘em where they ain’t.” It wasn’t just a convenient, pithy quote...
25 Okt 202233min
John Cullen Murphy - Painter to MacArthur's "Court"
The MacArthur Memorial has a collection of 31 works of art by John Cullen Murphy as well as an additional 2 works on loan to the museum. Why? While Murphy is famous for his work as the illustrator for...
3 Okt 202230min
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, The Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
Just after midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly three hundred American B-29s rained incendiary bombs down on the Japanese capital of Tokyo. The bombs created a nearly 2,800-degree inferno that killed mo...
23 Sep 202239min
The Infamous Field Marshal Uniform
When discussing General Douglas MacArthur’s tenure as Philippine military advisor in the 1930s, nearly all of MacArthur’s biographers describe MacArthur as being excited to accept the rank of Philippi...
6 Sep 202248min
