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
MacArthur Arrives in Japan
On September 2, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan’s surrender in a carefully choreographed ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Many people think that MacArthur landed in Japan ...
2 Sep 202231min
MacArthur, Kenney, and Air Power
George Kenney has been described as a “complete airman” and as one of Hap Arnold’s “best-kept secrets.” He wasn’t well known outside of aviation circles in the pre-WWII period and never made a name fo...
3 Aug 202242min
MacArthur and the US Navy and USMC in the Korean War
It is no secret that Douglas MacArthur’s relationship with the US Navy and the USMC was complicated in WWII – but what about during the Korean War? The Korean War was a very different war – but just a...
19 Juli 202233min
MacArthur and the US Navy in World War II
Interservice rivalry between the US Navy and the US Army was a major factor in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. While such rivalry is common in all militaries because each service has to comp...
5 Juli 202239min
MacArthur and Krueger: a Successful WWII Partnership
It is often said that General Douglas MacArthur didn’t have a staff, he had a court. While there were certainly a few courtiers on his staff, there were also some incredibly gifted men around him – me...
1 Juni 202239min
Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America during WWII
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declarations of war against Japan, Germany and Italy, the Roosevelt Administration had to figure out what to do with hundreds of Axis diplomats in ...
3 Maj 202230min
