Word: wainwrights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral arrived in Washington, D.C., the Navy had gathered up 5,000 troops, a half-dozen bands, artillery and captured Japanese equipment for a parade to end parades, had gassed up a thousand airplanes to fly overhead. The show pulled a bigger house than either Generals Eisenhower or Wainwright-more than a million people cheered from the sidewalks...
Your otherwise excellent story on Jap surrenders-"A Bubble Bursts" [TIME, Sept. 10]-was dead wrong on one point. Yamashita did not surrender to General Wainwright but to Major General Edmond H. Leavey, Chief of Staff of the Army Forces in the Western Pacific, who was acting for Lieut. General W. D. ("Fat") Styer, commanding general AFWESPAC...
...General Wainwright was there all right -but only as a distinguished visitor. Correction...
...Correction. Virtually all newspapers repeatedly credited Wainwright with accepting Yamashita's surrender. Everybody was wrong...
Then the Customs House got interested; it seems she was taking some clothes to her husband's Russian secretary. And at the last minute the parade for General Wainwright almost kept her from getting to the pier. (But through it all young Craig beamed: at last, after talking about it for months, he'd been able to tell his schoolmates, "I'm going to Russia tomorrow...