1945 NY Daily News newspaper w Photo GEN DOUGLAS MacARTHUR Returns 2 PHILIPPINES

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1945 NY Daily News newspaper with the famous General DOUGLAS MacARTHUR photo "I SHALL RETURN" pledge to return to the Philippines to liberate that country from the Japanese (and he DID) -
inv # 8Z-202
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
NY Daily News
dated Jan 20, 1945.
This newspaper contains a large front page photo ("I Shall Return") of US General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore through the surf to return to liberate the Philippines as he promised in 1942 after the Japanese conquered that country.
This is a very famous photo from WW II when MacArthur kept his pledge to the Philippines in returning in a dramatic way.
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".
In a matter of a few short months, the Japanese had devastated the U.S. military in the Pacific. The attack at Pearl Harbor was just the beginning
—afterward Japan attacked the United States and other nations all throughout the Pacific Ocean. Among the many targets was the Philippines, where 90,000 American and Filipino troops tried to fight off the Japanese onslaught. These men were led by General Douglas MacArthur.
He had been their commander for years, but had to be smuggled out of the country during the night to escape the Japanese invasion. He made it to Australia safely, expecting to immediately begin the fight to save his men back in the Philippines.
Instead, he was told the terrible news that there was nothing he could do. The country he had left behind would fall to Japan, and his men would either die or be captured by the Japanese. Many of them would eventually become victims of the infamous Bataan Death March.
The news distressed MacArthur, but he didn’t give up hope for the country and people he had grown to love. Instead, he issued a solemn promise to those whom he had been forced to abandon. They were three simple words, but they had a powerful impact:
"...I shall return."
MacArthur lived by those words for the next 2
½ years
—doing everything he could to free the islands and the people he cared so much for.
The words weren’t just for MacArthur’s sake. The Filipinos and Americans who were trapped by the Japanese and would soon fall victim to their brutality heard those words as well. "I shall return" became a rallying cry for those who were still fighting the Japanese, giving them hope when it seemed that there was no hope.
Gen. MacArthur lived by the words "I shall return" for the next 2
½ years—doing everything he could to free the islands and the people he cared so much for.I shall return.
The picture of his return to the Philippines, made by LIFE's Carl Mydans on Jan. 9, 1945, shows MacArthur striding ashore onto "Blue Beach," Dagupan, on the island of Luzon, Lingayen Gulf, in the Philippines. 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. In fact, even more so than the pictures of MacArthur at Leyte in October 1944, when the general first returned to the Philippines after escaping from Corregidor two years before, Mydans' photograph of the general and his comrades in the surf at Luzon seems to capture and perfectly distill something elemental about MacArthur's magnetism and his larger-than-life persona.
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