MacArthur reached Mindanao on March 13, and boarded a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber three days later; on 17 March, he arrived at Batchelor Airfield in Australia's Northern Territory, and took the Ghan railway through the Australian outback to Adelaide. His famous speech, in which he said "I came out of Bataan and I shall return", was made at Terowie, South Australia on March 20.
Allied forces under MacArthur's command landed at Leyte Island , on October 20, 1944, fulfilling MacArthur's vow to return to the Philippines.
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