On Oct. 20, 1944, Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte in World War II, fulfilling a ...
General Douglas MacArthur left Baatang, the Philippines, ahead of the invading Japanese forces and uttered the famous phrase ...
Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life ... General Arthur MacArthur -- back from the Philippines, where he had helped defeat the Spanish and served as military governor -- looked on proudly ...
General Douglas MacArthur believed the lushly vegetated ... MacArthur had been evacuated from the Philippines. Disease and hunger were rampant. Reinforcements had not arrived.
These were Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Soldiers, who fought America's first battle of World War II — the Philippine Division — probably the best trained and possibly the best prepared U.S. Army ...
On larger issues: In many ways the retaking of the Philippines was ... endless controversies that surround the long career of Douglas MacArthur, but rather to offer an engaging and balanced ...
Douglas MacArthur delivered his farewell address ... the situation in the Pacific worsened and the then-U.S. Commonwealth of the Philippines was threatened by the ever-creeping Japanese forces.
WASHINGTON — Seventy-five years ago, US forces began the invasion of Luzon, the largest and most populous island in the Philippines, thereby fulfilling Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur's 1942 pledge ...