TERROR & TRIUMPH AT LINGAYEN GULF

摘要

General Douglas MacArthur was anxious in the predawn hours of 9 January 1945, as U.S. troops prepared to storm the beaches of the Philippine island of Luzon. Two years, nine months, and 29 days had passed since MacArthur had climbed aboard a patrol torpedo boat and slipped away under cover of darkness, forced to watch in despair as the silhouette of Corregidor vanished on the horizon. His fortunes since had changed dramatically. He had traded the worn-out PT boats that had spirited him, his family, and his aides to safety for an armada of 818 aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and transports-the largest invasion force the United States had ever put to sea in the Pacific.