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===Honors and awards=== {{main|Service summary of Douglas MacArthur}} {{main list|List of places named for Douglas MacArthur}} [[File:West entrance of General Douglas MacArthur Tunnel, San Francisco, California, December 31st, 2014.jpg|thumb|West entrance of the [[MacArthur Tunnel]] in San Francisco, California]] [[File:1947smacarthurcommcam.jpg|thumb|MacArthur was the subject of two different [[legal tender]] commemorative coins in the Philippines in 1947. Filipino coins of MacArthur were also struck in 1980, the 100th anniversary of his birth and in 2014, the 70th anniversary of the Leyte landings.]] During his lifetime, MacArthur earned over 100 military decorations from the U.S. and other countries including the Medal of Honor, the French [[Legion of Honour]] and ''[[Croix de guerre 1914β1918 (France)|Croix de guerre]]'', the [[Order of the Crown of Italy]], the [[Order of Orange-Nassau]] from the Netherlands, the Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath from Australia, and the [[Order of the Rising Sun#1st Class, Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, Grand Cordon|Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, Grand Cordon]] from Japan.<ref name="Orders_no13" /> MacArthur was enormously popular with the American public. Streets, public works, children, and even a dance step were named after him.{{Sfn|Costello|1981|p=225}} A 1961 ''Time'' article said that "to Filipinos, MacArthur [was] a hero without flaw".<ref name=":0" /> In 1955, his promotion to [[General of the Armies]] was proposed in Congress, but the proposal was shelved.{{Sfn|Foster|2011|p=19}}<ref>[[s:Senate Joint Resolution 26, 21 January 1955|Senate Joint Resolution 26, 21 January 1955]]</ref> Since 1987, the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Awards are presented annually by the United States Army on behalf of the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation to recognize company grade officers (lieutenants and captains) and junior warrant officers (warrant officer one and chief warrant officer two) who have demonstrated "duty, honor, country" in their professional lives and in service to their communities. Each awardee is presented with a bronze bust of MacArthur.<ref>{{cite web |last=Leipold |first=J.D. |title=CSA presents 28 junior officers with MacArthur Leadership Awards |url=https://www.army.mil/article/104587/ |date=31 May 2013 |access-date=22 July 2014 |archive-date=5 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405060539/http://www.army.mil/article/104587/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 1989, the U.S. Army Cadet Command on behalf of the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation annually presents the MacArthur Award to the eight best [[Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps|U.S. Army ROTC]] programs in the country out of 274 senior Army ROTC units. The award is based on a combination of the performance by the school and its ROTC's commanding officers to support the program, its cadets' performance and standing on the command's National Order of Merit List, and its cadet retention rate.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.army.mil/article/244255/cadet_command_announces_2020_macarthur_award_winners |title=Cadet Command announces 2020 MacArthur Award winners |publisher=United States Army |date=15 March 2021 |access-date=10 December 2021 |archive-date=11 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211053515/https://www.army.mil/article/244255/cadet_command_announces_2020_macarthur_award_winners |url-status=live }}</ref> The MacArthur Leadership Award at the [[Royal Military College of Canada]] in [[Kingston, Ontario]], is awarded to the graduating officer cadet who demonstrates outstanding leadership performance based on the credo of Duty-Honor-Country and potential for future military service.<ref name="rmc.ca Award" />
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