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Douglas MacArthur
(26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)

 American five
star general and Field
Marshal of
the Philippine Army.

 Chief of Staff Of the

United States during the
1930s and played a
prominent role in
the Pacific theater
during World War II.
Douglas MacArthur
(26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)

 Received the Medal of Honor for
his service in the Philippines
Campaign, which made him and
his father Arthur MacArthur
Jr. the first father and son to be
awarded the medal.

 One of only five to rise to the

rank of General of the Army in
the US Army, and the only one
conferred the rank of field
marshal in the Philippine Army.
Douglas MacArthur
(26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)

 Valedictorian at the West
Texas Military Academy,
and First Captain at
the United States
Academy at West Point,
where he graduated top
of the class of 1903.

 In 1914 US occupation of
Veracruz, he conducted
a reconnaissance mission,
for which he was
nominated for the Medal
of Honor.
Douglas MacArthur
(26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)
  In 1917, he was promoted
from major to colonel and
became chief of staff of
the 42nd Rainbow Division.

 In the fighting on
the Western Front during
World War I, he rose to the
rank of brigadier general,
was again nominated for a
Medal of Honor, and was
awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross twice and
the Silver Star seven times.
 Douglas MacArthur
(26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)

On 26 July 1941,
Roosevelt federalized the
Philippine Army, recalled
MacArthur to active duty
in the U.S. Army as a
major general, and named
him commander of U.S.
Army Forces in the Far
East (USAFFE).
 December 7,1941

 Pearl Harbor was bombed
by the Imperial Japanese
Navy base in a surprise
attack.

 Admiral Yamamoto of the

Imperial Japanese Navy
came to conclusion that
for Japanese to be
victorious in the pacific,
they had to destroy
American fleet at Pearl Pearl Harbor was considered to be
Harbor. geographically perfect for the United
States to have their Pacific fleet based
there.
December 8, 1941

 Invasion of the
Philippines started , ten
hours after the attack
on the Pearl Harbor.
 General MacArthur
stood firm, under his
command was 12,000
American and 35,000
Filipino troops put up
fierce resistance.
December 8, 1941

 Besieged on the Bataan
Peninsula, they beat back
a vastly superior Japanese
invasion force.

 The stand made by

MacArthur's men delayed
the Japanese “timetable of
conquest” and gave the
United States time to
assess in the situation.
 January 2, 1942

General Douglas MacArthur
abandoned Manila and withdraw his
troops to the rugged peninsula of
Bataan to avoid encirclement.
 Meanwhile the
Island Continent of
Australia was
threatened with
invasion. As the last
major base in the
Pacific for the Allied
forces, Australia’s
defense had to be
bolstered.
 February 22, 1942

President Franklin Roosevelt sent a secret
message to MacArthur commanding him to break
through the Japanese line and go to Australia.

MacArthur transferred his Philippine

command to Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright.
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainright

 Commander of Allied
Forces in the
Philippines at the time
of their surrender to the
Empire of Japan during
World War II.
 March 12, 1942

 MacArthur was forced to  After leaving
abandon the Philippine
island fortress of Corregidor, MacArthur
Corregidor. and his family traveled
 Left behind at Corregidor by boat 560 miles to the
and on the Bataan Philippine island of
Peninsula were 90,000 Mindanao, braving
American and Filipino
mines, rough seas, and
troops, who, lacking food,
supplies, and support, the Japanese navy.
would soon succumb to
the Japanese offensive.
 March 17, 1942

 The general and his
family boarded a B-17
Flying Fortress for
northern Australia. He
then took another
aircraft and a long train
ride down to
Melbourne.
MacArthur's Mantra
 “I shall return.”

 During this journey, he  Deeply disappointed, he
was informed that there issued a statement to the
press in which he
were far fewer Allied promised his men and the
troops in Australia than people of the Philippines,
he had hoped. Relief of “I shall return.” The
his forces trapped in promise would become
the Philippines would his mantra during the
next two and a half years,
not be forthcoming. and he would repeat it
often in public
appearances.
 “I shall return.”
After General MacArthur was told by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff that he would not be allowed to go on to
liberate the Phillipines, he delivered this defiant speech

at a State Visit in Canberra, Australia to celebrate his
arrival there two years earlier. Speaking to a group of
Parliamentarians which included Australian Prime
Minister John Curtin, MacArthur repeated the famous
phrase, "I Shall Return."

General MacArthur
greeted in Sydney
by Australian Prime
Minister John
Curtin, 1944
MacArthur’s Australian Speech

 “I shall return.”

 For his valiant defense of
the Philippines,
MacArthur was awarded
the Congressional Medal
of Honor and celebrated
as “America’s First
Soldier.” Put in command
of Allied forces in the
Southwestern Pacific, his
first duty was conducting
the defense of Australia.
April 9, 1942

 Meanwhile, in the
Philippines, Bataan fell
in April, and the 70,000
American and Filipino
soldiers captured there
were forced to
undertake a death
march in which at least
7,000 perished.
 “I shall return.”

 After the U.S. victory at  Undaunted, MacArthur
the Battle of Midway in
June 1942, most Allied
resources in the Pacific
went to U.S. Admiral
Chester Nimitz, who as
commander of the
Pacific Fleet planned a
more direct route to
Japan than via the
Philippines.
launched a major
offensive in New Guinea,
winning a string of
victories with his limited
forces. By September
1944, he was poised to
launch an invasion of the
Philippines, but he
needed the support of
Nimitz’s Pacific Fleet.
 “I shall return.”

After a period of indecision about
whether to invade the Philippines or Formosa,
the Joint Chiefs put their support
behind MacArthur’s plan, which logistically
could be carried out sooner than a Formosa
invasion.
October 20, 1944

 A few hours after his
troops landed,
MacArthur waded
ashore onto the
Philippine island of
Leyte. That day, he
made a radio broadcast
in which he declared,
“People of the
Philippines, I have
returned!”
 “I shall return.”

 In January 1945, his  Manila, the Philippine
forces invaded the main capital, fell in March,
Philippine island of and in June MacArthur
Luzon. In February, announced his
Japanese forces at offensive operations on
Bataan were cut off, Luzon to be at an end;
and Corregidor was although scattered
captured. Japanese resistance
continued until the end
of the war, in August.
 Only one-third of the men MacArthur left behind
in March 1942 survived to see his return. “I’m a little
late,” he told them, “but we finally came.”
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 REFERENCES
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 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-
history/macarthur-returns

 https://legendofhistory.com/MacArthur-Australia-
Speech.php

 https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m04y5fz
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