General Douglas MacArthur was forced to flee the Philippines on this day in history, March 11, 1942. MacArthur was trying to avoid capture by the Japanese.

On October 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur along with thousands of army and naval forces attacked the Japanese held island of Leyte. Shortly after wading ashore with Filipino and American ...

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 ...

That Mydans’ photograph does not capture the return to the Philippines—the return that MacArthur promised in his single most famous utterance —hardly detracts from its significance.

“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. It would ...

Months of hard fighting in Philippines followed glorious return.

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

MacArthur wanted us to aid him in his return to the Philippines. Our convoy received a lot of hits those days. October 1944 was D-Day for the United States and for MacArthur to return to the ...