1942 WW II Honolulu HI newspaper US GEN MacARTHUR flees PHILIPPINES to AUSTRALIA

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1942 WW II Honolulu HAWAII newspaper US GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR flees to AUSTRALIA from the Japanese at CORREGIDOR in the PHILIPPINES. He is welcomed in MELBOURNE, Australia
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inv # 4X-205
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Honolulu Advertiser
(Honolulu, HAWAII) dated March 21, 1942.
This scarce WW II Honolulu, HI newspaper, printed just 6 weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, contains a banner headline and news of the
safe arrival of US General Douglas MacArthur in Melbourne, AUSTRALIA after fleeing the Philippine Island of Corregidor by PT boat
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This is where MacArthur declared: "I shall return (to liberate the Philippines) and he did in 1945 !!!
Great to have this in the Hawaii newspaper which was closest US territory to Australia and the Philippines during this, MacArthur's darkest hour, when his forces were surrendering on Corregidor and the Baatan "Death March" was taking place.
On 11 March 1942, during World War II, General Douglas MacArthur and members of his family and staff left the Philippine island of Corregidor and his forces, which were surrounded by the Japanese. They traveled in PT boats through stormy seas patrolled by Japanese warships and reached Mindanao two days later. From there, MacArthur and his party flew to Australia in a pair of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, ultimately arriving in Melbourne by train on 21 March. In Australia, he made his famous speech in which he declared, "I came through and I shall return".
MacArthur was a well-known and experienced officer with a distinguished record in World War I, who had retired from the United States Army in 1937 and had become a defense advisor to the Philippine government. He was recalled to active duty with the United States Army in July 1941, a few months before the outbreak of the Pacific War between the United States and the Empire of Japan, to become commander of United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE), uniting the Philippine and United States Armies under one command.
By March 1942, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines had compelled MacArthur to withdraw his forces on Luzon to Bataan, while his headquarters and his family moved to Corregidor. The doomed defense of Bataan captured the imagination of the American public. At a time when the news from all fronts was uniformly bad,
MacArthur became a living symbol of Allied resistance to the Japanese
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Fearing that Corregidor would soon fall, and MacArthur would be taken prisoner, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to go to Australia. A submarine was made available, but MacArthur elected to break through the Japanese blockade in PT boats under the command of Lieutenant (junior grade) John D. Bulkeley. The staff MacArthur brought with him became known as the "Bataan Gang". They would become the nucleus of his General Headquarters (GHQ) Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA).
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