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MacArthur Returns To The Philippines, October 20, 1944
US General Douglas MacArthur kept the promise he had made 2.5 years earlier to the people of the Philippines: he returned to the islands with an enormous invasion force and the largest assemblage of naval vessels in the history of mankind. For MacArthur, the liberation of the Philippines from the Japanese was the culmination of the war.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, MacArthur was in charge of US and Filipino forces in the Philippines. On December 8th of that year, the Japanese invaded the islands. MacArthur’s allied army found itself on the defensive almost immediately and began a hasty retreat that ended on the Bataan Peninsula and the rocky fortress called Corregidor. The General was prepared to fight to the last man and when the order came from President Roosevelt for MacArthur and his family to make their escape to Australia, he almost demoted himself in order to stay. But MacArthur understood that his worth as a frontline commander would be greater than his worth as a prisoner of the Japanese. In March, 1942, the General and his family escaped the islands by making a harrowing journey aboard a PT boat to the southern islands of the Philippines, where they met a B-17 that flew them to Australia. Once there, MacArthur released a statement to the press in which he made his famous promise, “I shall return.” 90,000 American and Filipino troops were still holding out, waiting for rescue.
It was not until the fall of 1944 that General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz finally planned a joint operation: the invasion of the Philippines. The invasion would see the largest sea battle in history take place in Leyte Gulf. Kamikazes were also a problem and caused many deaths. But the Japanese were in a desperate situation and by March, 1945, the capital city of Manila was in allied hands.
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