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Ever since reading your issue (May 8) referring to General Wainwright, I have felt a deep sense of humiliation and shame. It seems inexpressibly tragic that we should have let down the army that was stationed in the Philippines...
...major general: Lieut. General Brehon Somervell (permanent rank, colonel); Lieut. General Jonathan Wainwright (brigadier general); Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell (brigadier general). To brigadier general: Lieut. General George C. Kenney (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Mark Clark (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Carl Spaatz (colonel); Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker (lieutenant colonel...
...General Wainwright...
Your stark, epic portrait [TIME, May 8] of General Wainwright is the most challenging pictorial document of the war. His face illuminates all the tragedy, stoicism and heartbreak that men everywhere are enduring. As a shaming denunciation of "life as usual" and as a great inspiration for sacrifice it is unsurpassed...
Today, strong in its machines and young men, the U.S. is sweeping back across the Pacific. Victory lies ahead. Some day in the not too distant future the humiliation of the Philippines will be avenged. Wainwright and his soldiers wait. If they live they will learn that the nation has not forgotten the Philippines' gaunt and ghostly...