General MacArthur delivers ‘I shall return’ speech 70 years ago today (1942)


Video: MacArthur 'I shall return' speech re-enacted (at 4:00)

(Friday, March 20, 1942, during World War II) — General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, made his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: “I came out of Bataan and I shall return.”