On Oct. 20, 1944, U.S. general waded into the waters at Leyte as World War II moved toward its final chapters.

MacArthur's plan was to hold his ground on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island in the Philippines until the U.S. Navy could bring reinforcements and supplies from the United States.

General MacArthur’s landing at Leyte on October 20, 1944, was the first time he had been in the Philippines since he was ...

Before he left Corregidor in March of 1942, MacArthur divided his command among four subordinates, each located at a different part of the islands. Since each commander would report directly to ...

MacArthur had his entire Army withdraw to the Bataan Peninsula and to Corregidor Island to hold off the enemy until the U.S. Navy could bring reinforcements and supplies. The Philippine Scouts ...

MacArthur was derided as “Dugout Doug” for his retreat to Corregidor and subsequent flight from the Philippines, but he was also, we often forget, felt to have been irreplaceable, as the sole ...

to potentially destroy the local airport at Corregidor and threaten passing ships in Manila Bay. Mr Conway, who has inspected the site with the Philippine military, says there are two sheds ...

On July 16, 1942 United States Army Sgt. Charles E. Young Jr. died in a prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. Now82 years ...

General Douglas MacArthur, 1905. Library of Congress. One of the most controversial moments in the controversial life of Douglas MacArthur came in early 1942, when he received $500,000 from the ...

Godwin. They also saw the MacArthur Memorial Marker in Barangay Puntod, where General MacArthur landed on March 13, 1942, after successfully escaping the Japanese blockade of Corregidor.

Two Hugo Wolf Societies were formed in Berlin and Vienna. But this success was checked by the failure of Wolf’s opera Der Corregidor at its premiere in Mann­heim in 1896. When the Vienna Opera turned ...

In Galgos en Familia, in Cártama, so catastrophic were the floods that they had to take emergency measures and evacuate all ...