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Faith in General MacArthur Hinders Gamboa’s Return to Australia
Corporal Lorenzo Gamboa, a Filipino American who served in Bataan and later worked at MacArthur’s headquarters, is denied entry to Australia to join his wife Joyce and two children in Melbourne. He seeks help from General MacArthur, hoping the general recalls the Filipino desk boy and can intervene. Gamboa earned Australian citizenship but remains barred as an Asiatic, despite Army service and a return to Japan. His enlistment ends in June, and his last hope lies with the Allied command.
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Lorenzo Gamboa
MacArthur
Melbourne
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Gambon
Joyce
Ramund
Julie
Gamboa
U.S. Army
Manila
Pearl Harbor
Bataan
Australia
Japan
Herbert Cain
Exwervicemen's
United States
Bamaboa
San Francisco
Auatralia