Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his family left the Philippine island of Corregidor on this day in history, March 11, 1942. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the island after ...

In the darkest days of World War II, Gens. Douglas MacArthur and Jonathan Wainwright faced unsurmountable odds. Only one of them, however, was responsible for their dilemma. Against the threat of ...

Eighty years ago today, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia, three days after retreating from Corregidor in the Philippines under withering Japanese assault. Another three days later, at ...

Seventy-five years ago today, an armada of American warships was steaming toward the Philippines. World War II was underway. The Philippines were a U.S. colony, but Japan was occupying the archipelago ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. After covering the Italian and French ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur considered the Philippines’ capital of Manila to be his home, the place, he writes, where “My mother had died, my wife had been courted, my son had been born.” In the years ...

If in 1946 or after any hungry nation makes a grab for the 7,083 islands that will then be the free and independent Philippine Republic, she will find her hands full. Whipping through the water at 60 ...

President Quezon of the Philippines, November 1942. Library of Congress In 1904, while in the Philippines on his very first assignment out of West Point, Lieutenant Douglas MacArthur wrote a pamphlet ...

It was 75 years ago this month that Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed on the Philippine island of Leyte — leading to the end of the Japanese occupation there, and hastening the end of WWII. Seventy-five ...