MacArthur left the American fortress island of Corregidor, just off the Bataan Peninsula, on a Navy PT boat the night of ...

After struggling against great odds to save his adopted home from Japanese conquest, MacArthur was forced to abandon the ...

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 ...

MacArthur leaves the Philippines ... May: American and Filipino forces on the Corregidor in the Philippines surrender. Battle of the Coral Sea: In the first Japanese defeat of the war, American ...

General Douglas MacArthur prefers to watch, not duck, when enemy planes attack. It was so at Corregidor; it was so last week at Leyte. A .50-caliber bullet from a Jap strafing plane pierced the ...