Word: wainwrights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shortly before noon, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, commander of U.S. forces in the Philippines, left his headquarters on the stricken island. Wainwright walked towards his conquerors (reported Nichi Nichi's correspondent), carrying a white flag. He "slumped into a chair . . . head held in both hands, his eyes staring at the ground." When the victorious Japanese commander entered the room, "Wainwright and his aides stood up at rigid attention and saluted." Wainwright said that "he had come to talk surrender." It was Corregidor...
Into the Depths. Since Corregidor two long years have passed. Fresher violences have obscured the memory of Wainwright, the men who fought with him and the bitter story of national humiliation...
Sorely remembered now are more than 13,000 U.S. soldiers, including 35 U.S. generals, now in Japanese prison camps. Jonathan Wainwright, the man left behind to preside at his country's worst military fiasco, waits for death or liberation on Formosa, according to Jap reports. Three vague, hand-printed messages have come from him. That is all. Whether he is well or ill treated is not known. The Japanese look with scorn on the defeated...
...those who knew Wainwright knew that he would accept his fate with the stoicism of a professional soldier. Though he might look back on the events which had landed him behind barbed Wire with bitterness, he could look back on the life of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright without shame...
Captain Jonathan M. Wainwright 5th, seagoing son of the lieutenant general captured on Corregidor by the Japs, was awarded the D.S.M. of the Merchant Marine in Manhattan. Master of a ship bombed at Salerno, he had first abandoned her with the crew after a fire in a hold full of high octane gasoline had risen mast-high. Then he returned with one man and took off wounded. The ship later exploded...