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The photograph by Gaetano Faillace that served as the basis for the statues. The national park. The MacArthur Landing site sits on a 6.78-hectare (16.8-acre) coastal plain in the barangay of Candahug, some 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Leyte's provincial capital Tacloban. [2]
The new Leyte Provincial Capitol (completed in 2022) in Palo, Leyte, Philippines has two statues of MacArthur. One statue is a smaller version of MacArthur and his party landing in Leyte like the larger famous MacArthur Landing Memorial National Park and the other is a statue of MacArthur together with Jesus Christ and Ferdinand Magellan. [24] [25]
Jean MacArthur Research Center – houses the general's personal archives, memorabilia, and collections, including his trophies, medals, prizes, decorations, uniforms, flags, swords, battle souvenirs, personal papers, along with both official and other documents. [5] The building also includes educational facilities and offices.
His best known works include the MacArthur Landing site in Palo Red Beach, Leyte; the Benigno Aquino Monument which was originally at the corner of Ayala Avenue and Paseo de Roxas in Makati; the Bonifacio Monument in Pugad Lawin, Balintawak; and numerous statues of Jose Rizal, most notably the ones displayed in Philippine embassies throughout ...
The statue of Douglas MacArthur was completed by Roger Noble Burnham and the memorial was designed by Harold Field Kellogg. The monument was vandalized in the 1980s and surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution 's " Save Outdoor Sculpture! " program in 1995.
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