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Some brave marines try to avoid the fire of a hostile machine-gun.(U.S. Marine Corps Museum)
Jets were used for first time during this conflict. Americans
discovered that communist technology was not too backward.
An image of General McArthur during the campaign of the
Pacific in World War II. For the whole conflict and in the first years of the
postwar period he was in rivalry with Eisenhower in popularity and fame. His disappearance
from the political scene freed his adversary's road toward the Precidency (I.P.S.)
The presumed respect between McArthur and the President
Truman was only to public level. Both considered the other as an obstacle for
their own party or personal aims. Unfortunately for McArthur, the prominent position
of Truman pushed him out of the game in the moment of maximum fame. (I.P.S)