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General Douglas MacArthur in 1943 or 1944. This is the service summary of Douglas MacArthur, a General in the United States Army, who began his career in 1903 as a second lieutenant and served in three major military conflicts, going on to hold the highest military offices of both the United States and the Philippines.
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", [a] is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are ...
Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army: October 9, 1962: P.L. 87-760, 76 Stat. 760: In recognition of the gallant service he rendered throughout his military career. Walt Disney: May 24, 1968: P.L. 90-316, 82 Stat. 130–131: For outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry, which benefited United States and world culture. Sir ...
The Silver Star Medal (SSM) [5] is the successor award to the "Citation Star" (3 ⁄ 16 silver star) which was established by an Act of Congress on 9 July 1918, during World War I. On 19 July 1932, the Secretary of War approved the conversion of the "Citation Star" to the SSM with the original "Citation Star" incorporated into the center of the ...
The MacArthur family was for over one hundred years active in the affairs of the United States. Among them, there were two Army Generals, two awarded the Medal of Honor (the first father-son pair thus honored), four awards of the nation's second highest combat decoration (one of the Navy Cross for Arthur II and three of the DSC for Douglas), seven awards of the Distinguished Service Medal (one ...
In August 1932, Douglas MacArthur received the first Silver Star Medal, with one silver and one bronze oak leaf cluster converted from seven Citation Stars he received for World War I. An act of Congress authorized the Silver Star Medal for the Navy on 7 August and the Army on 16 December 1942 during World War II (retroactive to 7 December 1941).
Generals of the Army Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower are tied with five awards each received of the Army Distinguished Service Medal. They also each received one award of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, for a total of six DSMs each.