Editing Field marshal (section)

=== United States ===
No branch of the [[United States Armed Forces]] has ever used the rank of field marshal. On 14 December 1944, Congress created the rank of [[General of the Army (United States)|"general of the army]]", a five-star rank equivalent to that of field marshal in other countries. Two days later, [[George C. Marshall|George Marshall]] was promoted to this rank, becoming the first five-star general in American history. It has been suggested that the denomination of "Marshal" for a five-star officer was not adopted because, otherwise, George Marshall would be addressed as "Marshal Marshall", which was considered undignified.<ref name="Mosley">Leonard Mosley, ''Marshall, hero for our times'' (1982), 270, available at [[iarchive:marshallheroforo00mosl|Internet Archive]]</ref><ref name="mayer">Sydney Louis Mayer, ''The biography of General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur'' (1984), 70, available at [[iarchive:marshallheroforo00mosl|<!-- quote="Marshal Marshall". --> Internet Archive]]</ref><ref name="Larrabee">{{citation |first=Eric |last=Larrabee |title= Commander in chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his lieutenants, and their war |date= 2004 |page= 200 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |isbn=9781591144557 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fBaZ5zoIQwgC&dq=%22field+marshal+marshall&pg=PA200 |via= Google Books}}</ref><ref name="loory">Stuart H. Loory, ''Defeated; inside America's military machine'' (1973), 78, available at [[iarchive:defeatedinsideam0000loor|<!-- quote="field marshal marshall". --> Internet Archive]]</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Eisenhower Memorial Commission – The Story Behind Ike's Fifth Star|url=http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/stories/Ike-fifth-star.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717030648/http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/stories/Ike-fifth-star.htm|archive-date=17 July 2012|access-date=2012-05-14|publisher=Eisenhowermemorial.org|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Thus, [[Douglas MacArthur]] is the only US officer ever to have received the rank of Marshal, which was given to him by the government of the Philippines.