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General Douglas MacArthur
During World War 2, General Douglas MacArthur developed the strategy of island hopping. He would capture certain islands. The Americans would use those islands to get closer to their goal. He would leave Japanese troops on the other islands. He would not waste American lives trying to capture those islands. The objective was to get close enough to Japan to establish bomber bases capable of dropping bombs on Japan.
In command of Allied forces on the islands.
The Phillipine Islands.
The general who said, 'I shall return.' was Douglas MacArthur. He said it as he departed the Philippines early in World War II. He did indeed return to take the islands back from Japan a few years later.
During World War 2, General Douglas MacArthur developed the strategy of island hopping. He would capture certain islands. The Americans would use those islands to get closer to their goal. He would leave Japanese troops on the other islands. He would not waste American lives trying to capture those islands. The objective was to get close enough to Japan to establish bomber bases capable of dropping bombs on Japan.
General Douglas MacArthur was in charge of rebuilding Japan. During WWII, he had been in charge of the South-West Pacific Theater of Operations which ran from New Guinea through the Philippine Islands, but the fleet itself was under Nimitz overall, and under Halsey in MacArthur's theater of operations.