MacArthur is a 1977 film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck in the titular role as American General Douglas MacArthur.
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
In a meeting in Pearl Harbor between US President Roosevelt, Admiral N...
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MacArthur is a 1977 film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck in the titular role as American General Douglas MacArthur.
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
In a meeting in Pearl Harbor between US President Roosevelt, Admiral Nimitz and MacArthur to discuss East Asian strategy, MacArthur points to Lingayen Gulf in Western Luzon, calling it Leyte Gulf, and referring to it as the site of his re-entry to the Philippines.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Battle of Leyte, which included MacArthur's first return to Philippine soil on 20 October 1944, were in the Visayas, the archipelagic Central Philippines.
The Invasion of Lingayen Gulf, with MacArthur making a similarly dramatic landing in the main island of Luzon, occurred on January 9, 1945.
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