Jean MacArthur
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Jean Marie MacArthur was the second wife of U.S. Army General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
MacArthur in 1950
Douglas and Jean MacArthur on their wedding day after leaving the New York City courthouse.
On 11 March 1942, during World War II, General Douglas MacArthur and members of his family and staff left the Philippine island of Corregidor, where his forces were surrounded by the Japanese. They tr
Jean MacArthur
…him to the island of Corregidor in Manila's harbor. Even when the island was attacked, she refused to leave her husband. Only when President Roosevelt ordered the MacArthurs to leave they went to Australia. After her husband's death she helped with the Metropolitan Opera and other charities. In her later years, she often gave speeches…
PT-32, one of the four PT-20 class motor torpedo boats involved in the first part of the journey
MacArthur, as the focus of U.S. war propaganda, became a symbol of Allied resistance to the Japanese
The Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George C. Marshall (left), confers with the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, in January 1942
Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley (left) at the helm of a PT boat