Word: wainwrights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bataan the Japanese outnumbered the American defenders. But, General Wainwright's troops finally ran out of supplies and suffered huge casualties...
...Angeles [Evening] Herald and Express of May 29 [published a photograph] showing the meeting of General Homma and General Wainwright on May 5. Are you able to reconcile this with the following from TIME, March 16: "After an honorable funeral, the late General Homma's ashes were flown to Tokyo for internment in an honorable shrine...
...Despite the photograph released by the Japanese and purporting to show General Jonathan Wainwright surrendering at Corregidor to General Masaharu Homma, Douglas MacArthur is convinced that Homma is dead. In March Corregidor had word that a Jap general of high rank had committed hara-kiri in Manila. His body was publicly carried to a crematorium while soldiers lined the streets. Next day a special plane bearing an urn of ashes took off from Manila. Homma was not seen again in the Philippines and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, succeeded-according to Tokyo's own announcement-to the command...
Dashing Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew ("Skinny") Wainwright, fighting scion of an illustrious military family, horseman, balladeer, fighter-to-the-end, was finally forced to the greatest tragedy in a soldier's life. He surrendered, and walked off through the dead and dying to discuss with fat, able General Yamashita the terms of his capitulation...
What they were, General Wainwright was not privileged to tell his people back home. In a last-minute message to the States, Corregidor had urged the U.S. to be of good heart. The rest was silence...