On This Date October 20,1944- MacArthur returns

Name: On This Date October 20,1944- MacArthur returns
Start: 2025-10-20
End: 2025-10-20

October 20, 1944 – after having been driven off of the Philippines in 1942, US Army General
Douglas MacArthur waded ashore in Leyte after his troops had invaded and secured a
beachhead. He then declared triumphantly: “People of the Philippines: I have returned.”