Douglas MacArthur, the son of the high-ranking military figure, Arthur MacArthur,  was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on 26th January, 1880. Although previously a poor scholar, in 1903 MacArthur graduated first in his 93-man class, at West Point Military Academy. Commissioned in the Corps of the Engineers, MacArthur was sent by the United States Army to the Philippines and by 1904 h... Read more...

The contributions of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II are an important and often forgotten aspect of Army heritage. On August 1, 1943, the 44th Bomb Group was one of five B-24 “Liberator” heavy bomber groups to conduct a dangerous, daytime, low-level raid on the German-held oil refineries located near Ploesti, Rumania. Code-named &ldquo... Read more...