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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur - (United States)

After the War, he became the American leader of occupied Japan, and in 1950-51, led UN forces in the Korean War before being relieved of command by President Truman. Subsequently, he gave an unprecedented speech to a joint session of Congress in which he made his famous statement that "old soldiers never die, they just fade away." MacArthur died in 1964.




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