Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked out, gaunt and shaken, to surrender Corregidor, Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright did not feel like a hero. As a prisoner of Japan he did not feel like one, either. "Skinny" Wainwright, who could remember the bugle-bright traditions of the U.S. cavalry, learned a dingier drill-to remove his shoes when entering buildings, to bow to his captors. He was allowed no news. Lonely and aging, he could only wonder about how the war was going, and what the nation and the Army thought about him-if they ever did think about...
...aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, received the first of the five pens with which General MacArthur signed the document. Then, for the supreme moment of his wonder-packed week, he returned to Baguio, to accept the surrender of all Japs in the Philippines from the now fangless "Tiger of Malaya," Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita...
Inquisition. For "recalcitrant" prisoners, and airmen from whom the Japanese hoped to extract information, there was special treatment. At Ofuna, a camp for unregistered prisoners, they endured months of solitary confinement and tortures. Husky guards took pride in breaking jaws and eardrums. At a Japanese prison camp, Marine Lieut. William Harris, veteran of Corregidor was battered for half an hour with a baseball bat. He lived, but others, after similar treatment, died. There were also more refined methods: metal bits were fastened into soldiers' mouths with thread which gradually drew tighter & tighter;match slivers were thrust under...
...already been adjudged (by the 1942 Roberts report) as derelict in their duties: Lieut. General Walter C. Short, Commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department, and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet on the day the Japs attacked. New light shed by the reports did nothing to brighten their records; it cast them, indeed, into darker shadow. What the new light did was to illuminate other failures. Among them...
...Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, now head of a board to study lessons of World War II, then Chief of the War Plans Division of the Army's General Staff...