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Along Fifth Avenue the crowds were thick-not as thick as they had been for Generals Eisenhower and Wainwright and for Admiral Nimitz, but good, sizable, cheering, confetti-throwing crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Power & Peace | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Back to Texas | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...General Wainwright was there all right -but only as a distinguished visitor. Correction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mothers Answered | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Correction. Virtually all newspapers repeatedly credited Wainwright with accepting Yamashita's surrender. Everybody was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mothers Answered | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 8, 1945 | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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