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  • Manuel L. Quezon poster image canonical_images/feature/Macarthur_Quezon_canonical.jpg XXX Article
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    Manuel L. Quezon

    The friendship between Quezon and MacArthur deepened in Manila in the late 1920s, when MacArthur commanded the Philippine Department.

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    General George C. Marshall

    The only man to ever serve as both secretary of state and secretary of defense, his greatest achievement may have been devising the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt a devastated Europe after World War II. 

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    Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur

    Mary P. Hardy's family was less than pleased, then, when she announced her engagement to Arthur MacArthur, Jr., the young hero of the Union's important victory at Missionary Ridge.

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    Japan and Liberation

    Roughly two-thirds of the POWs were shipped out for labour as MacArthur returned in 1944.

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    The Filipino Veterans Movement

    Approximately 250,000 Filipino men joined the U.S. Armed Forces in the months before and the days just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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    MacArthur: Three generations

    Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life, from cradle to grave, in the United States Army.

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    Emperor Hirohito and PM Yoshida

    The man known as Tenno to his subjects and Hirohito to the rest of the world ranks as one of the most enigmatic figures of the 20th century. 

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    The Siege of Bataan

    Despite fighting courageously against an enemy with superior firepower, MacArthur's forces were pushed steadily back and grew weaker by the day. 

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    The Guerrilla War

    Wherever they were, however, those in the resistance did all they could to survive and prepare for MacArthur's promised return.

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    The War In the Pacific

    President Roosevelt signing the Declaration of war against Japan in December 1941.

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    Moving the Concrete

    On June 6, 1933, workers poured the first bucket of concrete that would build the dam.

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    Building Diversion Tunnels

    The most dangerous phase of Hoover Dam's construction was building the diversion tunnels.