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On March 11, 1942, General Douglas MacArthur was ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt to abandon Corregidor Island and some 90,000 American and Filipino troops.

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"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."

– Douglas MacArthur

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a_priori 10mo ago

damn. you hear a lot about how terrible the germans were, but at least personally I never really heard about the japanese treatment of the philippines.

Mitch 10mo ago

There's an excellent movie (there are several, to be fair) called "Unbroken" that deals with the life of POWs in Japanese internment camps.