1932 Bonus March ~ (MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower) Excerpt � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

1932 Bonus March ~ (MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower) Excerpt � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

"President Hoover knew he had to curb the escalating violence. Hoover reluctantly agreed, but only after limiting Major General Douglas MacArthur’s authority. MacArthur’s troops would be unarmed.

The mission was to escort the marchers unharmed to camps along the Anacostia River. He gave the order for Army Chief of Staff Gen. Douglas MacArthur to remove the approximately 3,500 veterans, many with their wives and children, who refused to leave.

A force of about 600 – cavalrymen and infantrymen with a few tanks – advanced to the scene under the leadership of Chief of Staff MacArthur in person, two other generals, and, among junior officers, two whose names would in due course become much more familiar, Majors Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, Jr."