Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The MacArthur Leyte Landing Memorial National Park (also known as the Leyte Landing Memorial Park and MacArthur Park) is a protected area of the Philippines that commemorates the historic landing of General Douglas MacArthur in Leyte Gulf at the start of the campaign to recapture and liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation on 20 October 1944.
The MacArthur Memorial Marker is a shrine dedicated to US General Douglas MacArthur in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.. The MacArthur Memorial Marker commemorates the arrival of MacArthur in the city at Macabalan wharf who is retreating to Australia amidst the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during the World War II era.
United States Army General Douglas MacArthur is remembered for his services in many places. Schools, roads and parks are among those that have been named in his honor. MacArthur was enormously popular with the American public, even after his defeat in the Philippines, and across the United States streets, public works, children and even a dance step were named for him during World War II as
General Douglas MacArthur Landing at Luzon, Philippines, 1945. "Blue Beach", Dagupan, Lingayen Gulf. On this shore, known as Blue Beach in Bonuan Gueset, the first combat troops of the sixth army of the United States of America under the command of General Douglas MacArthur landed on 9 January 1945 to liberate the island of Luzon, thus fulfilling his famous promise to the Filipino people: 'I ...
The Leyte provincial capitol is the seat of the provincial government where there is a mural depicting the First Mass in the Philippines, believed to have happened in Limasawa, and the landing of General Douglas MacArthur. The MacArthur Landing Memorial National Park in Red Beach, Palo, marks the 1944 landing by the American liberation forces ...
The name MacArthur can be traced back to the liberation of the Philippines from the hands of the Japanese forces. As an expression of gratitude, six years after Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed at the Leyte Beach, the Leyteños through the efforts of the late Daniel Z. Romualdez , then Congressman of the First District of Leyte, named the town ...
Built for the American troops in the Philippines during the time of Douglas MacArthur from 1928 to 1930. MTMTC Filipino April 1, 1984 The Insular Life Assurance Company, Ltd. First insurance company organized by Filipinos on November 25, 1910. First Philippine company to have a branch overseas in Hawaii in 1935.
A 1734 map of Intramuros, from ... The whole city of Manila was declared by General Douglas MacArthur as an open city as ... The statue was transferred in 1975 at the ...