On October 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur, a US five star general and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific, triumphantly returned to the Island of Leyte in the Philippines after US forces retook the island from the Japanese. Years earlier, in 1942, MacArthur was in charge of US military forces in the Philippines which, at the time, was part of the US Commonwealth. As an invading force of Japanese soldiers overwhelmed MacArthur's defenses, he was ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt to leave the Philippines. In a radio address to the Filipino people, MacArthur vowed that he would return to the Philippines.
Whether it's the waves of Southern California or on the beaches of the Philippines, its super fun to wade in the surf.
- Charlie
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