Posted on February 1, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Eduardo Pontaoe
Chicago, IL
datdosapang@yahoo.com
1 Feb 2006
News Item: Where did MacArthur make his historic landing in Pangasinan?
Mayor Benjie Lim wanted to know the truth where that landing really happened. He requested the veterans and historians to help because Dagupenos believed Dugout Doug landed in Dagupan. Was it in Lingayen or in Dagupan?
According to my research, Mac did not walk ashore in Lingayen or Dagupan in the first hours of the landings.
The light cruiser Boise was Mac's flagship. In the early dawn of January 9, 1945, he landed at San Fabian.
Page 440: The Sixth Army put four divisions - the 6th, 37th, 40th, and 43rd ashore in the midmorning of January 9th…. After lunch Mac, Sutherland (his chief of staff), Egeberg, Lehrbs, and several members of the staff boarded a landing craft of the 1st Corps and headed for the beach near San Fabian.
Reference: Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur(New York:
Random House, 1996) by Geoffrey Perret.
Page 241: I established general headquarters at Dagupan.
Reference: Reminiscences (Blue Jacket Books: Naval Institute Press, 1964) by
Douglas MacArhtur.
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