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Jun 19, 2024 · Freed from Japanese prisons, General Jonathan M. Wainwright comes home. He steps off the plane in San Francisco and is greeted by the Western Defense Commander and his sister.
Jun 29, 2024 · Behind him stand General Jonathan M. Wainwright and General Arthur E. Percival. Courtesy US Navy. The Japanese then stepped forward to sign the surrender documents, after which MacArthur, accompanied by Wainwright and Percival, sat down to affix his own signature, using five pens.
1 day ago · Wainwright's forces included the PA 11th, 21st and 31st Infantry Divisions, the U.S. 26th Cavalry Regiment (PS), a battalion of the 45th Infantry (PS), and the 1st Provisional Artillery Group of two batteries of 155 mm guns and one 2.95 inch (75 mm) mountain gun.
5 days ago · The Japanese attack on Bataan was halted initially, but it was reinforced in the following eight weeks. MacArthur was ordered to Australia on March 11, leaving Bataan’s defense to Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright.
Jun 18, 2024 · Standing behind MacArthur are U.S. Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright (left) and British Lieut. Gen. Arthur Percival. (more) His largest, costliest operations occurred during the seven-month Luzon campaign in 1945.
18 hours ago · On 11 March 1942, under orders from President Roosevelt, MacArthur fled Corregidor for Australia, and Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright assumed command in the Philippines. The defenders on Bataan, running low on ammunition and supplies, could not hold back a final Japanese offensive.
Jun 24, 2024 · The account of four years of Humiliating Defeat, Surrender, and Captivity, by General Jonathan M. Wainwright, who Paid the Price of his Country's Unpreparedness.
