Episode 321-MacArthur-I Shall Return

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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MacArthur finishes up his escape from Corregidor to Melbourne Australia. But the news waiting for him is not the General’s liking, basically, there are more troops back on Bataan than there are in the whole of Australia. But Gen. George Marshall will sooth MacArthur’s wounded pride with The Medal of Honor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.5	Hello and thank you for listening to The History of World War II podcast.
1:10.1	Episode 321, MacArthur, I shall return.
1:15.5	Last time MacArthur and his oversized entourage had escaped the closing ring around Corregidor
1:21.9	Island and having gone some 350 miles by PT boat, they still had another 1,500 to go.
1:31.1	This journey would be finished up by air travel.
1:34.1	That is, until a general got a look at the lone B-17 out of the four that had tried
1:40.3	to make the journey.
1:42.2	He had no wish to risk his life and that of his family in this bucket of bolts that
1:47.6	seemed to have more bullet holes than bolts.
1:51.2	However, the Japanese who had already landed on Mindanao to the south were coming for
1:56.5	Del Monte Airfield.
1:58.3	Fast, and we're only some 30 miles away.
2:01.7	Like the departure from his island headquarters, it was now or never.
2:07.7	Right away MacArthur sent a message to General George Marshall, US Army Chief of Staff, about
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