CORREGIDOR, PHILIPPINES

The following is excerpted directly from original World War II Newsreels and Field Reports:
(March 11, 1942)
It is now official, General Douglas MacArthur has left the Philippines.  Prior to his departure, he declared, "I shall return."
MacArthur, his family and several advisors boarded four PT boats which raced 560 miles to the Philippine Island of Mindanao.  They completed the dangerous voyage in just 35 hours, eluding Japanese surface and air forces.
Reports are confirming that General MacArthur has reached his Australian army headquarters to formally take over the big job of  preparing a counter offensive to throw back the Japanese invaders.

Dateline, October 20, 1944, Allied Forces under General MacArthur's command, covered by aircraft from Admiral Halsey's carriers, have landed at Leyte Island, fulfilling the vow MacArthur made two and a half years ago to return to the Philippines.
After heavy fighting in Luzon and Manila, MacArthur has finally consolidated his hold on the archipelago.  So intense was the Allied offense that Japanese forces were hard-pressed to slow the advance, let alone turn it back. 

I spent some time there a few years after the war ended and saw Manila Bay still clogged with sunken hulks (Japan finally cleared the harbor in 1959) and the old City still in ruins in Manila.  It is certainly true that Filipinos had no use for Japanese in those years after the war......Medicineman!