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Events on Friday 20 March 1942 1
1942MacArthur promises "I shall return"US commander pledges to liberate the PhilippinesOrdered to leave Corregidor, General Douglas MacArthur escaped to Australia. On arrival he made his statement that he would return to the Philippines. The line became one of the best-known pledges of the Pacific War.