Read the quote from Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur as he left the Philippines.The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines. . . . I came through, and I shall return.

MacArthur’s words, “I came through, and I shall return,” show that he was leaving the Philippines but promised to come back. At the time, Japanese forces had driven US and Filipino forces from the islands, so the United States had been forced to retreat. Choice A correctly captures both the retreat and the promise to retake the Philippines.

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