General MacArthur’s landing at Leyte on October 20, 1944, was the first time he had been in the Philippines since he was evacuated from Corregidor Island in March 1942 under orders from President ...

Only about 30,000 of the 90,000 troops left in the Philippines on March 11, 1942, lived to see MacArthur's return in 1944, said the History Channel. "I’m a little late," he told the troops, "but ...

MacArthur itched to return to the Philippines but led major campaigns in New Guinea. On Oct. 20, 1944, he and his naval counterpart, Adm. Chester Nimitz, launched an invasion of Leyte Island.

After three years of brutal Japanese occupation, General MacArthur’s return to the Philippines triggered a massive campaign to free the archipelago. Filipino resistance fighters, already ...

Months of hard fighting in Philippines followed glorious return. ... General Douglas MacArthur made his promised return to the Philippine archipelago 71 years ago.

“Keep the flag flying”: Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s escape from the Philippines, 1942 The general fled Manila Bay to avoid being captured by the Japanese army, promising to return.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur with Gen. Richard Sutherland (left) and Col. Lloyd Lehrbas (second from left) walks through the surf to the beach at Lingayen, Luzon, the Philippines, Jan. 9, 1945.

Wendell S. Anderson of Rockford, Illinois, joined the Navy at 17 and served as a Seabee during World War II under Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Anderson helped build docks for ships, airfields for Navy ...

Typhoon Haiyan took down one of the soldiers memorialized in a statue memorializing Gen. Douglas MacArthur's 1944 landing in Palo, Philippines.

General MacArthur, And The Return To The Philippines. By Charles Apple . Fri., Oct. 18, 2024. Eighty years ago today — Oct. 20, 1944 — Gen. Douglas MacArthur made good on the ...