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...Soldier Born. "Skinny" Wain wright had a soldier's heritage. Great-Grandfather Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Episcopal bishop of New York in 1852, fought by the Word, his descendants by the sword...
...Skinny Wainwright's mother's side stood Grandfather Edward Serrell, who devised the "Swamp Angel"-the great 8-in. Parrott gun which was skidded across swamps, set upon piling and used to hurl 200-lb. shells into the heart of Charleston...
...Skinny Wainwright's northern Luzon troops grudgingly began to back up. Ford, Chevrolet and G.M.C. trucks with the insignia of Japan rolled over the roads with General Homma's little men. Jap artillery hurled shells made of U.S. scrap. Jap planes, sent back after Singapore to finish the job, dropped fragmentation bombs made of the same stuff. Back of Wainwright's lines, base hospitals overflowed in gangrened misery...
...Orphans. On the peninsula of Bataan, now in full command, Skinny Wainwright butchered his horse to eat. Every day he visited the front line. His indifference to snipers became a legend...
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright hauled down his flag, threw himself and his men on the mercy of the little conqueror, went off with them to share the nation's degradation. Far to the South, in Australia, General MacArthur penned his memorable epitaph: "Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly...