Word: wainwrights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From dawn to dusk his bombers went over in flights of from three to 54. Mostly they left their cards at Corregidor, home address of Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and keystone of the U.S. structure of resistance...
...except to keep the raiders high. From their foxholes on the mainland, infantry soldiers kept patrols out in no man's land to be sure that "Tojo" was keeping quiet. Probably in search of prisoners and information, a U.S. force plowed into the Jap lines, and "Skinny" Wainwright was able to report a successful brush...
...their hope of relief, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright's battle-grimed men on Bataan look to Australia and MacArthur. Yet if there is still hope that they can be saved, that hope is dawning, not in the south, but in the east. Bataan's relief is more likely to come from the broken lifeline between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, where the Navy's task forces are at work. Last week a task force under Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. put back into Pearl Harbor and told a cheering story...
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...
West Pointer Wainwright knows all about Bushido, all about the treatment the Jap has already given to U.S. prisoners, particularly Filipinos. He gave the note the answer it deserved: he ignored it. Along the front the firing grew...