Comments on: Book Review: Undefeated, by Bill Sloan http://www.historynet.com/book-review-undefeated-by-bill-sloan.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Mon, 20 May 2013 19:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tom http://www.historynet.com/book-review-undefeated-by-bill-sloan.htm#comment-828951 Tom Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:01:59 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685666#comment-828951 "None seem puzzled that, while every other British and American commander during the debacles of 1940 and 1941 left in disgrace, MacArthur emerged a national hero." That's because unlike most of the other defeated generals, MacArthur made up for his defeat. He organized and led one of the most brilliant (and less publicized) campaigns of the war. Operation Cartwheel and the recapture of the Phillipines were remarkable for the way they rocked the vaunted IJA and IJN onto their back. You can't argue with that kind of success. It's funny that for all those who call Mac a prima donna and vain they forget that of all the campaigns of WW2, those in the SW Pacific are not as well known as those in the Central Pacific by the (equally publicity hungry) USMC. "None seem puzzled that, while every other British and American commander during the debacles of 1940 and 1941 left in disgrace, MacArthur emerged a national hero."

That's because unlike most of the other defeated generals, MacArthur made up for his defeat. He organized and led one of the most brilliant (and less publicized) campaigns of the war. Operation Cartwheel and the recapture of the Phillipines were remarkable for the way they rocked the vaunted IJA and IJN onto their back. You can't argue with that kind of success.

It's funny that for all those who call Mac a prima donna and vain they forget that of all the campaigns of WW2, those in the SW Pacific are not as well known as those in the Central Pacific by the (equally publicity hungry) USMC.

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