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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Born January 26, 1880 in the Little Rock Barracks, now the Museum of Science
and History.
World War II December 7, 1941 - August 6,1945
Field Marshal of the Phillippines 1937 - 1941
Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in the Southwest Pacific
Supreme Commander of the Occupation Forces in Japan
Supreme Commander of the United Nations defending Korea
Died April 5, 1964 in Washington, D.C.
This white pine (editor's note: no pine tree in sight), Pinus strobus, is a
seedling of the largest white pine in America, located in Nicholet Park,
Wisconsin. The tree, donated by the Living Museum of Trees, LeMaster and
Kline, Louisville, Kentucky, was grown from one of the last pine cones produced
from the one-thousand-year-old parent tree named for Douglas MacArthur in 1945.
Dedicated April 5, 1991
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