The turning point in the Pacific War began JUNE 4, 1942

The turning point in the Pacific War began JUNE 4, 1942.

American intelligence intercepted Japan's plans to capture Midway Island and from there, Hawaii.
The outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet ambushed the Japanese armada, but was losing badly.
It was not until American dive bombers, navigating by guess and by God, sighted the Japanese aircraft carriers far below through a break in the clouds at the precise moment the Japanese planes had left to attack the U.S.S. Yorktown.

In just five minutes, the screeching American dive bombers sank three Japanese carriers, and a fourth shortly after.

After this providential event, Japan was forced to go on the defensive.

On the Pacific War, President Roosevelt said, August 12, 1943:

"Three weeks after the armies of the Japanese launched their attack on Philippine soil, I sent a proclamation...to the people of the Philippines... that their freedom will be redeemed...

The great day of your liberation will come, as surely as there is a God in Heaven."

Roosevelt stated October 20, 1944:

"On this occasion of the return of General MacArthur to Philippine soil...we renew our pledge.

We and our Philippine brothers in arms - with the help of Almighty God - will drive out the invader."

American Minute - Douglas MacArthur, Five-Star General

American Minute
with
Bill Federer

Douglas MacArthur was born JANUARY 26, 1880.

He commanded in World War I, was superintendent of West Point, and the youngest Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.

A four-star general, he retired in 1939, but returned in 1941 to defend the Philippines.

When Japan invaded, President Roosevelt ordered him to Australia, but not before he promised "I shall return."

In 1944, he returned with an American army and freed the Philippines. Promoted to Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific, he received Japan's surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor.

Promoted to five-star general, he was Supreme U.N. Commander during the Korean War until he became at odds with President Truman over wanting to confront the Communists.

Truman made the unpopular decision to remove him.

Douglas MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962:

"The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training-sacrifice.

In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image.

No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of Divine help which alone can sustain him."