Popular Terms. Usage, improvement, and protection of human and natural resources in a wise manner, ensuring derivation of their highest economic and social benefits on a continuing or long-term basis.
In 1941, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was forced to surrender the Philippines, but made his famous promise of I shall return.. Three years later, he made good on his promise to liberate the islands. Island hopping was the strategy used by the United States command.
The invasion of Leyte in the Philippines was a decisive Allied victory over the Imperial Japanese Army under the command of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, initiating the Philippines campaign of 1944 â 1945 for the liberation of the entire Japanese-held Philippine islands.