Gen. Mac Arthur - I Shall Return

Short clip of General MacArthur as he reiterates his intention to return to the Philippines.

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• Philippines
• WWII
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• return
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[emmthreejonny]

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."

- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

[drum3433]

Gen. MacArthur (aka "Dugout Doug") should have been given more harsh treatment and court martialed after the Japanese attack on the Philipines. First of all the attack occured after Pearl Harbor. Why was he caught off guard when the Philipines were attacked? Why was the Army Air Force destroyed on the ground? Why wasn't a mobile counter attck force in the ready to respond to a Japanese beach landing before a solid footing was established? Oh well,, I have run out of space to post more.

[emmthreejonny]

@drum3433 - The attack happened a day later perhaps hours the least. The USAFFE were armed mostly with WWI era weaponry. The air force was not entirely caught off guard, however, these airplanes were the Boeing P-26 "Peashooter" fighting against the much more advanced Japanese 'zeros'. This didn't stop from making pilots like Jesus Villamor become an ace pilot early in the war.

[trajan75]

@drum3433 Nothing could have prevented a Japanese victory in the Philippines. MacArthur should have scrambled the Air Force but it would have made no difference. The US high command not MacArthur decided that there could be no counter attack. Your suggestions are naive. For the balance of the war MacArthur took more territory with fewer casualties than any other allied General.

[msinalan]

:)



[lanzolives]

0:14 for the "i shall return"

[devilcruiser]

@olexyd Patton is a worst cold blooded commander, if were just left to command against Rommel in north africa campaign, without the support of the British and other Allied forces, US army is already doomed... Rommel is the best tactician in terms of both offensive and defense in desert warfare, Hitler just neglect him from its support leaving him a gun with no bullets in Africa.

[devilcruiser]

@drum3433 First of all US remain neutral, there cannot be any engage of war unless it is officially declared, US can do at that time is to give support as mutual intention to its remaining allies,McArthur also has no power to persuade the congress to decalred war so he remain neutral untill the Japs made a wrong move decission, if McArthur had just given the command to defend the Phil's before the war, The Japs would be sorry to its more powerful heavily guard fortresses like Cordillera & Bataan

[am1966ath]

@drum3433 You are right, and the general fled with his staff and Phillippino gold to Australia.

[ikesuarez1]

Sutherland was the AH who prevented the USAAF general who wanted to immediately bomb Formosa from seeing Macarthur. Tempermentally, Ike did not understand the Latino-Asian culture of the Philippines. Most Filipinos of the greatest generation would not have begrudged Macarthur's payment

[ikesuarez1]

Yes, the Filipinos fought the Fil-American War. But this was the Age of Imperialism in the 1890s. Nonetheless, Amercians were naive colonizers who imposed many of the reformist ideas in vogue during the Progressive Era in the US. The Philippines left the Philippines in shambles? Half-truth. When they left, the Philippines had the best public school system in Southeast Asia. I'm Filipino, dude.

[ikesuarez1]

Manchester was a marine. No love lost then between Macarthur and the Marines. manchester, as with most US marines didn't like armymen. Macarthur felt that same way too on the eve of WW2. In fact, he wanted the USMC 4th marines assigned as guards to free the Philippine Constabulary for beach defense.

[ikesuarez1]

Filipinos of the Greatest generation hold Macarthur in high regard. OK, he had a blackout. But a few questions: why were rifles he requested for the Philippine Army a searly as 1938 not released by Washington. The Philippines had US $50 million in 1940 dollars deposited in trust. President Quezon of the Commonwealth of the Philippines had repeatedly asked that amount to be able to equip at least one regular Philippine Army Division. The amount came only on the eve of WW2..