January 19, 2010

Arkansas-born General Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army during the Korean War, was born in Little Rock (Pulaski County) on January 26, 1880, and baptized at Christ Episcopal Church. Though he returned to Little Rock in 1952 and acknowledged his birth site, the war hero had little other contact with his native state. He is shown here inspecting troops of the all-African-American Twenty-fourth Infantry on his arrival at Kimpo Airfield, Korea, in 1951.