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Willoughby: A Life in Four Chapters: - Chapter 2 -The Macarthur Imperium - FULL EPISODE
🕑 Added 2025-07-22 23:49:41 +0000 UTCIn chapter 2 of the Willoughby Series, I cover first the MacArthur Family, which is important background as Douglas MacArthur was arguably the biggest influence on Willoughby in his life. In the second half, Willoughby's time in WW2 as MacArthur's intelligence chief in the Pacific. You can find the two halves split up below into seperate videos.
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SoCalAri
Great work!
Ian Russell
(Grant presidency dates aside)
Ian Russell
I, for one of many, deeply appreciate your obstinancy. We need to see history in its minutia as we watch it unfold (again) before our eyes.
MikePreece
On looking into this myself, I see that Butler was posted to Manila Bay on May 23, 1899 but was not involved in the fighting initially. He wrote to his Mum in August asking her to ask his Dad to use his influence to get him posted to the front. He was 18. Jonathan M Katz, in his book Gangsters of Capitalism writes: "Butler's desire to prove his manhood burned so hot that it blinded him to the moment when a war he'd joined to free people from imperialism became a war to subdue a colony". The teenage Butler led the march on the village of Noveletta in October - right into an ambush. Sorry to digress.
MikePreece
I'd like to know how much interaction Smedley Butler had with these characters up to and including the clearing of the Bonus Camp. Butler showed himself to be anti-fascist when exposing the Business Plot.
Consuelo Concepcion
I like the longer format, and I sometimes wait to watch the full episode rather than watch it in smaller batches. It’s a personal preference. I’m really enjoying the series, as I really didn’t know much about some of these people, such as Willoughby until I started watching the series.
EWO
Typo, thanks I’ll fix it for the YouTube release 🫡
Consuelo Concepcion
You have the wrong dates for Grant’s presidency. The correct dates were from 1869 to 1877.
John OLOUGHLIN
Excellent work!
Michael Schaefer
Absolutely some of your finest work…. You have created a great portfolio of work… I hope you feel inspired to keep it coming for the rest of us to enjoy !!! Very unique style of investigative journalism !!! We’ve noticed your work is not regurgitated conjecture or conclusions derived from others. !!!
Tomasz Golanowski
Fascinating, as always! Thank you and cannot wait for another video from my favorite creator.
Warren Commission Test Skull
Let’s go!!!
Riley Ken
Been looking forward to this since part 1 dropped. Thank you for your work, as always. Can’t wait!
