Small Archive of Photos of General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur

Small Archive of Photos of General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur.  Six images ranging in dates from the late 1930s to 1950.

This archive contains the following:

• The General and his staff, “the motive force exercise”  Presentation from C.E.K. to another. (
  The U.S. Army officer serving on General Douglas MacArthur’s staff in the 1930s with the initials C.E.K. is Colonel Charles Emmanuel Kilbourne (who later became a Major General). 
  Key Service Details
  • Staff Role: During MacArthur’s tenure as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (1930–1935), Kilbourne served as a pivotal member of the War Department General Staff, notably as the Assistant Chief of Staff, War Plans Division (WPD). 
  • Medal of Honor: Kilbourne was highly distinguished long before his 1930s staff assignment. He earned the Medal of Honor during the Philippine-American War in 1899 for climbing a telegraph pole under heavy enemy fire to repair a broken communication line.
  • The Philippine Connection: Because of his extensive history in the Philippines—a trajectory that mirrored MacArthur’s own deep ties to the islands—Kilbourne was one of the core strategic advisers MacArthur relied on regarding Pacific defenses and industrial mobilization planning during the interwar years. (Web search).
•       The General waiting for the arrival of SEC of the Army Robert Peterson, at Ataugi Airport, Japan. Jan. 1946.
•       Arriving to inspect the Honor Guard  in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 1949.
•       Inspection the Honor Guard in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 1949
•       Foreign Correspondent, Miss Marguerite Higgins, N.Y. Herald Tribune, in South Korea, 29 June, 1950. (Higgins was the only woman among six reporters honored in 1951 for covering the Korean War. The Pulitzer jury noted: ‘She is entitled to special consideration by reason of being a woman, since she had to work under unusual dangers.’  at the age of 24, Higgins had persuaded her editors to send her to Europe to cover World War II. On April 29, 1945, she was with the Army troops who liberated Dachau. Her report included this sentence: “This correspondent and Peter Furst, of the Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, were the first two Americans to enter the enclosure at Dachau,  As the Herald Tribune’s Tokyo correspondent in 1950, Higgins was one the first reporters to reach Korea when hostilities broke out. She later reported from Vietnam, where she contracted a tropical disease that proved to be mortal. She died on Jan. 3, 1966, at the age of 45.”  See article about her (@https://www.pulitzer.org/article/marguerite-higgins-hits-red-beach.)
• Gen. MacArthur with Gen. J. Lawton Collins, CoS U.S. Army, at UN Flag presentation.

All but one are 8x10s with credits;  Miss Higgins is 4×5, and 30’s Philippines image of staff has no credit.

Fine condition throughout.