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...taken time to reveal his staff's working structure. Departmental sources believe that Major General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright, 58-year-old cavalry expert, is Douglas MacArthur's second in command. Horseman Wainwright and Brigadier General Albert N. Jones received Distinguished Service Crosses for "extraordinary heroism in action" during early phases of the Philippine invasion. Douglas MacArthurs Chief of Staff is handsome, young (48) Major General Richard K. Sutherland. Commanding Corregidor is tall, thin Major General George F. Moore, a Coast Artilleryman since 1909. Carl Seals, Douglas MacArthur's closest friend and Adjutant General, was recently made...
...When the full story of Singapore is known," wrote N.A.N.A.'s Douglas Wilkie, "the heroism of the Asiatics will not be judged by the need of some city restaurants to close down when their staffs walked out because inadequate shelters were provided. It will be judged by the type of Chinese transport drivers who carried on throughout the blitz, evoking the remark from an Australian officer supervising them: 'If I want the most efficiency in Singapore I will go first to the Scotsmen and then to the Chinese...
Bitterly he described the machine-gunning of sailors in open boats as they returned from church services. His Jap grudge was fed also by the heroism of his fellow seamen. Proudly he described the spirit and speed with which the men of the Navy went into action-"faster than in target practice"-and in spite of orders to leave burning decks stayed at their anti-aircraft guns. He recalled the magnificent calm of a small doctor who carried a 275-lb. medical chest down two deck ladders during the attack and set up his operating room by himself. Even mess...
MacArthur's Army was winning medals, from infantry to the Quartermaster Corps, from artillery gunners to medical personnel. There was no monopoly by branch on spectacular heroism...
Slight, deaf, intense Bishop Barry knows his wars. A winner of the D.S.O. for heroism as a chaplain in World War I, he has since served as Archdeacon of Egypt, Chaplain to the King, Canon of Westminster, and Vicar of the University Church at Oxford, which he packed with undergraduates as it had never been packed before-even by John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman. No stuffed shirt, he lists his recreations in Who's Who as "indescribable...