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Noting one of today's Photo of the Day, this was thoroughly debunked in the late, great, much missed Special Interest Autos and elsewhere back in the late '70s. It seems a new equally gullible generation has joined those losing their minds/memories or thinking so-and-so having ridden in a car like theirs makes it better.

Abetted by down home museum displays of olive drabbed, blacked out Clippers--some of them postwar models at that -- and the internet, a new generation of buffs, or a forgetful older one, believe MacArthur had a '42 Packard Clipper staff car. If not riding in a Jeep, MacArthur was occasionally chauffeured in a '42 Cadillac Series 75 limousine belonging to the owner of a Philippine sugar plantation.

Ike, Bradley and some other high brass in Europe did get '42 One-Sixty Clippers.