GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR had one of his closest, escapes from death when the Japanese in a strafing attack put a 50 calibre bullet into the wall a foot over his head, reports the correspondent of the Associated Press of America at General MacArthur’s headquarters. Colonel Lloyds Lehebas, the general’s aide, heard the bullet strike and rushed into the room. General MacArthur nodded unconcernedly to the hole and said: “Well, not yet.” General MacArthur had another close escape in the Philippines early in the war when a Japanese bomb exploded nearby, wounding a Filipino orderly standing beside him. (New York.)
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Southland Times, Issue 25512, 4 November 1944, Page 5
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99GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR had one of his closest, escapes from death when the Japanese in a strafing attack put a 50 calibre bullet into the wall a foot over his head, reports the correspondent of the Associated Press of America at General MacArthur’s headquarters. Colonel Lloyds Lehebas, the general’s aide, heard the bullet strike and rushed into the room. General MacArthur nodded unconcernedly to the hole and said: “Well, not yet.” General MacArthur had another close escape in the Philippines early in the war when a Japanese bomb exploded nearby, wounding a Filipino orderly standing beside him. (New York.) Southland Times, Issue 25512, 4 November 1944, Page 5
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