26-G-1108441_Box 70_1:  Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944.  Reflection of Liberation.  Reflected in General MacArthur’s glasses are figures of the Filipino natives greeting his return joyously on the beach of Leyte Island after the island had been under Japanese oppression for nearly three years.  This enlargement of a close-up photograph was made by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer who held his camera on the General for ten minutes waiting for the exact instant to snap this remarkable picture.  General MacArthur was standing on Leyte’s beach soon after landing to keep his famous, “I Shall Return” Pledge.  The Filipinos, many who had hidden in the hills, were on the shell-torn beach to hail their liberator, even as the Japanese fell back into the jungles.   U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.   (2015/12/15).
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