MacArthur, General Douglas

Malaria cases in Sicily exceeded battle casualties. At some West African airbases, personnel averaged an infection and a relapse yearly. The disease was an important factor in the fall of Bataan in the Philippines and in other early Pacific war disasters. For each battle casualty early in the New Guinea campaign, six to eight malaria patients had to be evacuated. An entire division of U.S. Marines was withdrawn from the front after more than half contracted malaria in the summer of 1942. Unless malaria could be controlled, General Douglas MacArthur said that he would have one division of men hospitalized with malaria and another division recuperating from it for every combat-ready division. 

Further international attempts to ban not only the use of chemical weapons but also all research, production, and training caused a response that developed into a new U.S. policy on chemical warfare. The U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, stated the policy in a letter to Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson in 1932 ... 

Japan was then administered through forty-six regions, called prefectures, in addition to the three municipal administrations in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. General Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander of the Allied powers (scap), who was overseeing the occupation, worked through the prefectural governors. If he did, I realized, then so should I. 

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