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MacArthur Museum of

Arkansas Military History

 

also known as the City Park, the Arsenal, MacArthur Park

Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas

 
 

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

N. 34.444.308 W 092.15.739

 
 

Douglas MacArthur

World War I 1917-1918

West Point Graduate 1903

Rainbow Division Chief of Staff August 1917, Colonel

84th Brigade 42nd Rainbow Division August 1918, Commander

Rainbow Division Commander November 1918, Brigadier General

West Point Superintendent June 1919

Chief of Staff of U.S. Army November 1930 - 1934

Dedicated this 19th day of July 1996, by the Rainbow Division Veterans Association and Memorial Foundation

in Honor of its Permanent Honorary President (deceased)

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur

 

 
 

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