The Doug is down

9-17000 servicemen protest in D.C. for their bonus certificates which the Senate won't approve payment of. Gen. Douglas MacArthur later evicts the last 2000 of them with tanks and troops. He gets killed by a stray bullet(or Alvin York 600 yards away on a grassy knoll:)).

Who would fill his shoes during WWII and Korea?

Working on a roleplaying/wargame campaign game. Thanks.
 
Who would fill his shoes during WWII and Korea?

Someone who doesn't take massive b/r/i/b/e/s/ payments from the Philippine government. Someone who deals appropriately with the threat to the Philippines, and prepares better. Someone whose ego and Washington connexions don't get in the way of efficient strategic planning.

Eisenhower?
Vinegar Joe (Stillwell) was slated for commanding Torch until they pulled him out and dumped him in China, where his intolerance for bullshit set him at loggerheads with Chiang. If MacArthur isn't in the Philippines, Eisenhower might be, which would likely lead Stilwell to be in charge of Torch.

Who goes to China? I don't know.

My 2 cents (1.5cents US) worth
 
Someone who doesn't take massive b/r/i/b/e/s/ payments from the Philippine government. Someone who deals appropriately with the threat to the Philippines, and prepares better. Someone whose ego and Washington connexions don't get in the way of efficient strategic planning.

Eisenhower?
Vinegar Joe (Stillwell) was slated for commanding Torch until they pulled him out and dumped him in China, where his intolerance for bullshit set him at loggerheads with Chiang. If MacArthur isn't in the Philippines, Eisenhower might be, which would likely lead Stilwell to be in charge of Torch.

Who goes to China? I don't know.

My 2 cents (1.5cents US) worth

That'd be a interesting timeline to read.
 

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I took a whack at a similar idea a couple of months back

I love the quote attributed to Ike regarding MacArthur and the Bonus Army: "I told that dumb sonofabitch not to go down there...."

One of the other candidates in the mix would have been Gen. Malin Craig, who succeeded little Mac as Army Chief of Staff.
 
If Eisenhower had gone to the Philipinnes and Stillwell takes over Torch, could Stillwell have become Supreme Commander? And if so, how might he have delt with Patton and Montgomery?
 
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