MacArthur men did not respect him?... where to you get that nugget.of wisdom...
have ever spoken directly with any Army veterans that served under him?..
or are you just talking to Marines who harbored a resentment against MacArthur and the US Army in general in the Pacific feeling the Marines did all the heavy lifting....
or just reading books
Those Marines would be wrong. The Army did most of the fighting in the Pacific, and almost all of it in the rest of the world.
Not only did they conduct about 80% of the amphibious landings, they also lost about the same number of men in the Pacific theater as the Navy and Marines combined, lost in the entire war, world wide.