Daily Archives for 9 January 2013


January 9: MacArthur Lands in Lingayen

On 9 January 1945, General Douglas MacArthur landed in the Lingayen Gulf of Luzon; an important step in liberating the Philippines from the Japanese. MacArthur’s father had been Governor General of the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century. At that time, MacArthur met Manuel Quezon who became President of the Philippines in 1935. […]