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Dashing Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew ("Skinny") Wainwright, fighting scion of an illustrious military family, horseman, balladeer, fighter-to-the-end, was finally forced to the greatest tragedy in a soldier's life. He surrendered, and walked off through the dead and dying to discuss with fat, able General Yamashita the terms of his capitulation...
Thur Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright spoke last week to the men on The Rock - the artillerymen and infantry soldiers of the regular garrison, the Marines sailormen and Army men salvaged from Bataan...
...States as on Corregidor and its satellites (Forts Drum, Hughes and Frank), men took heart. Jonathan Wainwright was no hollow-voiced orator, to fire his people with false hopes. If he said it could be done, maybe it could. In the corridors and subterranean rooms of The Rock, the new arrivals were swiftly put to work making life tough...
...Jonathan Wainwright's soldier's eye saw that the end was near. From the shores of the Bay he withdrew his naval forces, sailormen and Marines of the 4th Regiment (evacuated last November from Shanghai) to Corregidor. He tried to strike one last blow. Against a Jap breakthrough on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula he threw a corps in desperate counterattack. It was too much. The glassy-eyed soldiers went forward like men in a dream, so exhausted that many of them could hardly lift their feet, and the Jap mowed them down. The flank folded...
...Early in the week San Francisco's shortwave station KGEI had Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright broadcast a message of good cheer to "Skinny," accompanied by three wagging woofs from the General's pet Labrador Retriever. When the end of Bataan came, KGEI's "Freedom for the Philippines" rose to the occasion with a solemnity by which the grim survivors on Corregidor were moved to tears: "The world will long remember the epic struggle the Filipinos and Americans put up. . . . But what sustained them through all these months of incessant battle was a force more than physical...