Eighty years ago today — Oct. 20, 1944 — Gen. Douglas MacArthur made good on the promise he had made repeatedly since President Franklin Roosevelt ordered him to leave his beleaguered troops ...

On Oct. 20, 1944, MacArthur made good on his promise to return to the Philippines, coming ashore on the island of Leyte and later making a radio broadcast announcing to the country that he had ...

I was loaded into the same landing craft with MacArthur, and I went ashore with him ... Carl,” he called out. Then, coming over, he said, “This is the highlight of it all, isn’t it?

“I have returned,” MacArthur said with typical bombast when he waded ashore at Leyte ... attack that any other commander would have seen coming. Predictably, the Japanese soon arrived and ...