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...forces were naturally under Generalissimo Chiang. These problems of command ceased to be problems with the High Command working smoothly. Along the Bataan peninsula and across the blue Manila harbor waters to the fortress of Corregidor, the Japanese were threatening a final all-out attack. Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright's future was up to the High Command. And so was the future of the High Command...
MacArthur was gone to a higher command. The Japanese General Homma, licked to a standstill and dead by his own hand, was a handful of ashes in a bedizened shrine. His successor, pot-bellied General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, faced a classic U.S. cavalryman: lean, dashing Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who had been promoted to Lieutenant General to fill Douglas MacArthur's man-size shoes...
Yamashita knew that he was fighting a first-rate U.S. General. "Skinny" Wainwright's father had fought alongside Douglas MacArthurs father 40 years ago in the Islands; his Navy grandfather had died on his ship in the Civil War; he himself had seen long service in the Philippines. Against this opponent, Yamashita moved with ponderous ceremony...
...undoubtedly regrouped his forces. He had also moved some 240-mm. (about 9½ in.) guns into position somewhere along the edges of Manila Bay. They were the biggest guns yet used by the Jap in Luzon, and they began blasting at the fortress of Corregidor, where General Wainwright makes his headquarters...
Corregidor got one of its worst poundings of the war. Yamashita may have imagined that General Wainwright was softened up enough for a different approach. On U.S. positions, his aviators dropped cans, tied with red ribbons, bearing identical notes. The notes were addressed "To His Excellency, Major General Jonathan Wainwright...