MacArthur visits the battlefield on Bataan, in the Philippines
date: label: Date made
content: 1945-03
label: Date made
content: 1945
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: Once Mydans was pulled from the European theater in late 1944, he reunited with Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific. After the landing at Luzon, MacArthur's troops made their way into Bataan. Almost three years after Gen. Edward King surrendered Bataan to the Japanese, American troops and Filipino guerrillas recaptured the peninsula. According to <i>LIFE</i>, after many days of battle, General MacArthur surveyed the Japanese dead and issued a communique: <i>So far as can be found, no living Japanese soldier is now on the peninsula</i> (<i>LIFE</i>, Mar 5, 1945).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Philippines: Bataan
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Life Magazine
label: Related Publication
content: Mydans, Carl. Carl Mydans, Photojournalist
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.073
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.073
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35.2 cm x 27 cm; 13 7/8 in x 10 5/8 in