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>> he was trying to emulate his father. >> mcarthur created the famed 42nd rainbow division by dividing various national guard units from 26 different states and the district of columbia. when they sailed that october of 1917, colonel douglas mcarthur was its chief of staff. >> movements of men rather than machines. >> mcarthur was a dashing man. >> mcarthur did not look like anybody else. he wore an enormous scarf that his mother had knitted. the thing was about 10 feet long and wrapped around his neck. he was happy to take whatever the supply sergeant gave him. >> not everyone was e na enamor

mcarthur's style. >> he would often upgrade him with the way he dressed and everything like that. >> describe his experience in combat? in world war i. >> mcarthur was, to my mind, was the greatest combat soldier the united states has ever produced. he was not simply brave. he was very smart. he was a problem solver. [ explosions ] >> october, 1918, on a hill known as shat toe, american forces were slaughtered by machine guns. >> it was trying to take a very small and well protected hill. that division had to be pulled up to the. . >> it was then that mcarthur had to devise a plan. >> he was the only survivor.

the one weakness in the german defense. and the hill was patient. it was an absolutely brilliant piece of combat leadership. >> as seen in this film, now awarding the brigadier general the distinguished service krcro for his bravery. >> well, mcarthur wasn't happy. he figured this was his only chance to get the medal of honor. he didn't think it was right for a general to be giving the big one, the medal of honor, to other generals. >> that winter, douglas recovered to exposure to poison gas. he also fell in love with his nurse. >> i think there was a florence nightengale-type of romance. >> back from the war, mcarthur's next assignment was to

revitalized a behind-the-times west point. >> tried to change everything but the color of the uniforms. >> mcarthur returned to west point as superintendent earning new friends and enemies. he took his first bride, a beautiful heiress with a beautiful heiress with a

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. 1919, the great war officially ended and brigadier general douglas mcarthur became the youngest superintendent of west point. he was 39 years old.

>> does he make any changes in the way things looked? >> mcarthur felt that west point was not just behind the times, it was at least a generation behind. >> did they resent what he was trying to do? >> there's some things, cadets and faculty found bewildering. he had cadets writing poetry. he said, look, you've got to read a newspaper every day. he brought civilian instructors into the faculty. mcarthur loved innovation. >> now, in her 60s, pinky was living with douglas in the superintendent quarters. >> his mother was a possessive woman. there was no getting around that. no one was ever going to be quite good enough for douglas. >> she goes to a football game at west point and meets douglas mcarthur. >> louise was a vivacious, 31-year-old american heiress whose industrial stepfather was worts moworth more than $150

million. mcarthur was clearly submiten. >> a vol luminous set of cards. >> did mom interfere at all in the day-to-day relationship? resented it? >> strongly. >> and there was other interference from general blackjack persing. louise had served as his "ho "hoste "hostess" in paris. >> mcarthur married louise brooks who percy intended to marry off to one of his favorite aides. and mcarthur came along and ruined that relationship. >> they were definitely exiled to the philippines. and the whole army knew mcarthur's been fired.

mcarthur was not being taken down just one peg, but half a dozen pegs. >> that september of 1922, unwilling to command a post unworthy of his rank, yet dear to his heart. >> douglas gets a wire. mother is sick. she's near death. come home. >> mcarthur immediately packs them all up again. >> pinky recovered. in 1923, douglas' surviving brother, a navy captain died of a burst apen digs. their marriage was collapses. >> she always try today get him out of the army. louise is also like the mother, had a lot of personal pull, used her father's connections, as well. got to the point where he saw the wealth as a very sickening thing. >> but mcarthur's general obstacle is gone.

percy retired. he became army chief of staff in 1930 wearing four stars. during those last days of the jazz age, mcarthur's term ended. >> louise wants to be a flapper girl. mcarthur wants no part of it. >> he immersed himself in work and built his own war department family, k4 included a young major, dwighten hower. he also fell in love again. >> when he first started dating her, she was 16. >> she was a young philippine. he's living with his mother at ft.myer who would just be a agassed that not only does he

have a mistress, but that she's philippine. by 1932, unemployment hit 20%. especially hard hit? the veterans of world war i who were promised a thousand dollar bonus who were demanding pay. >> mcarthur was a victim of molsey, the assistant chief of staff. her bebert hoover knew that it would be a terrible mistake to have the army go across the river and into the main camp. and he had an odd sense telling him do not cross the bridge.

he made sure that that wire did not reach mcarthur. >> what was mosley smoking? >> he felt that he should be driven out of washington. >> people believed that the army burned down the camp. it didn't. the washington police had burned down the camp. >> his very abled, a, dwight b. eisenhower produced the official report that completely exonerated the army. >> when the japanese attacked the philippines, mcarthur was forced to the

power to prosper. >> 55-year-old douglas mcarthur led the inaugural