“I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.”

— Douglas MacArthur

To Colonel George M. Jones and the 503rd Regimental Combat Team, who recaptured Corregidor (2 March 1945), as quoted in Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin (1945), p. 40

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