Douglas MacArthur

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Douglas MacArthur

• Vocabulary

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aide-de-camp

• Member of the personal staff of an Officer,
  usually a General Officer, in a High Command,
  usually called Aide . His duties include
  receiving and transmitting orders or performing
  any other duties the General Officer may assign
  him.

MacArthur became aide-de-camp to President
Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.
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atomic bomb
An explosive device in which a large amount of
energy is released through the nuclear fission of
uranium or plutonium.

• The first atomic bomb test, known as the Trinity
  Shot, took place in the desert north of
  Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. Several
  weeks later, an atomic bomb was used for the
  first time as an instrument of war, detonating
  over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6)
  and Nagasaki (August 9).

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Corregidor

• An island in the entrance of the Philippines'
  Manila Bay.

U.S. military personnel in their bunker on
Corregidor, c. March, 1942
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Inchon

• A port city in western South Korea on the Yellow
  Sea a battle in the Korean War (1950) United
  States forces landed at Inchon

Blitz landfall on port city of Inchon by the U.S.
Forces.
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infantry

• Infantry are soldiers who fight primarily on foot
  (although in modern times they often use
  motorized, mechanized, or even airborne
  transportation). Traditionally, they have used
  personal weapons, but modern
• infantry invariably operate
• with attached support weapons
• and sometimes armored
• fighting vehicles.

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military governor

• The head of a government established by the
  military (as in a defeated country).

     At the end of WWII, General Douglas
MacArthur became the military Governor of Japan.
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rank

• Military rank, or simply rank, is a system of
  grading seniority and command within military
  organizations.

Dates of rank Second Lieutenant, United States
Army June 11, 1903 First Lieutenant, United
States Army April 23, 1904 Captain, United
States Army February 27, 1911 Major, United
States Army December 11, 1915 Colonel, National
Army August 5, 1917 Brigadier General, National
Army June 26, 1918 Brigadier General rank made
permanent in the Regular Army January 20, 1920
Major General, Regular Army January 17, 1925
General for temporary service as Army Chief of
Staff November 21, 1930 Major General rank
listed on Regular Army retired rolls October 1,
1935 Lieutenant General for temporary service in
the Army of the United States July 27, 1941
General, Army of the United States December 18,
1941 General of the Army, Army of the United
States December 18, 1944 General of the Army
rank made permanent in the Regular Army March
23, 1946
General Douglas MacArthur
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The Philippines

• The north-eastern part of the Malayan
  Archipelago. The territory was ceded to the
  United States in 1898 under the terms of the
  Treaty of Paris. During the first half of the
  20th century the Philippines became of great
  strategic importance to the defense of the United
  States.

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West Point

• The United States Military Academy, also known as
  USMA, is a U.S. military academy and former Army
  fort. It is located in West Point, New York, on
  the west bank of the Hudson River about 50 miles
  north of New York City. The post itself was first
  occupied in 1778, and it is thus the oldest
  continuously
• occupied military
• post in the
• United States.