General Douglas MacArthur was born January 26, 1880, in Little Rock Arkansas. He was raised by a military family and this transcended into him graduating from West Point Military Academy in 1903. He served in World War 1, where he received a plethora of awards including the Silver Star, Medal of Honor, and Distinguished Service Cross, and by the end of WW1 he was a brigadier general. Between the years of 1919 and 1922 MacArthur served as a Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Years later in 1924 assisted in the quelling of the Philippine Scout Mutiny. In 1930 Douglas MacArthur was once again promoted to Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Prior to retiring from the United States in 1937 MacArthur assisted in clearing out the Bonus Army protesters and helped in establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and upon retirement he became the Military Adviser to the Commonweath Government of the Philippines. In 1941 Dugout Doug was recalled to active duty, and soon after his leadership was enlisted Pearl Harbor and the Japanese invasion of the Philippines took place. These events caused him, his troops, and family to Bataan. He held out in Bataan until mid-1942 when he was forced to retreat to Australia. On September 2, 1945 he accepted Japanese surrender upon the USS Missouri.