26-G-3584_Box 70_1:  Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944.  The Man Who Came Back.  General Douglas MacArthur, his corn cob pipe clenched between his teeth, surveys the beachhead of Leyte Island, soon after American forces swept ashore from a gigantic liberation armada into the Central Philippines.  A Coast Guard Combat Photographer made this remarkable study of General MacArthur, even catching the reflection of Liberated Filipinos in his glasses, at the historic moment when he made good his promise of nearly three years ago, “I Will Return.”  U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.   (2015/12/15).
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