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...from the same list. The President agreed. Nimitz himself demurred; he suggested that the command should go to Vice Admiral William S. Pye, who had taken over temporarily from Kimmel after the disaster. But he accepted his orders, and started west in civilian clothes, under the pseudonym of "Mr. Wainwright," by rail to San Diego, and thence by air to Pearl Harbor...
...Regiment burst into the city from the east. So the 1st Cavalry Division had won the race-and not even the Buckeyes could say there was no justice in the fact: the 1st had sworn to strike a blow for their onetime brigade commander, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, now in Jap hands. This...
...Hard Road. There was a great difference between the Douglas MacArthur who had said goodbye to Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright at Corregidor and the man who now returned to the Philippines. He had been a good general then; now he was one of the great. Outwardly he was the same colorful, often theatrical soldier, visibly aged since December 1941, a little flabbier around the jowls and beltline, half bald, with a brushed-over lock of hair which he selfconsciously stroked when his cap was off. But his military stature had grown vastly. He still spoke sound military theory...
Like a voice from another world came a report last week from Lieut. General Jonathan Wainwright, the man who had to bear the ignominy of surrendering the Philippines...
...Cross agent, who interviewed the General in Formosa "some time within the last three months," reported through a screen of Japanese censorship that "Skinny" Wainwright and other high-ranking officers were confined in a camp apart from other prisoners, got the same rice-and-fish diet as all prisoners of war. Wainwright's only reported comment was that conditions were "as good as can be reasonably expected...