General MacArthur's Dramatic WWII Comeback Began in Australia. Trace His Journey From the Outback to the Queensland Coast

By Tony Perrottet Photographs by David Maurice Smith It’s a forgotten quirk of American military history that one of the most inspiring moments in the Pacific during World War II occurred on an abandoned railway platform in a dusty ghost town called Terowie, at the parched edge of the Australian outback. On March 20, 1942, on that unlikely, heat-baked spot, General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the U.S. and…