Keywords: people 26-G-3538_Box 70_1: Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944. MacArthur Keeps His Pledge. This remarkable study of General Douglas MacArthur, nonchalantly puffing on his corncob pipe, was made by a U.S. Coast Guard combat photographer at the historic moment when MacArthur surveyed the Leyte Island beachhead and saw his famous “I Will Return” pledge fulfilled. U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/15). 26-G-3538_Box 70_1: Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944. MacArthur Keeps His Pledge. This remarkable study of General Douglas MacArthur, nonchalantly puffing on his corncob pipe, was made by a U.S. Coast Guard combat photographer at the historic moment when MacArthur surveyed the Leyte Island beachhead and saw his famous “I Will Return” pledge fulfilled. U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/15). |