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Discover the brutal truth General Douglas MacArthur uncovered about Japanese defenses in the Philippines during World War 2. In 1944, as MacArthur returned to Leyte, he quickly realized that General Yamashita’s forces had turned jungles, cities, and caves into deadly fortresses prepared for one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

Witness how American troops were forced into ferocious house-to-house combat, clearing caves with flamethrowers and grenades during the terrifying battles of Manila and Leyte. What was expected to be a swift liberation became a horrifying bloodbath, with massive civilian and military casualties.

From MacArthur’s famous promise to return… to the shocking reality of total urban destruction—this campaign revealed the true cost of victory and pushed the Pacific War toward its final, devastating end.

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