WAINWRIGHT, JONATHAN MAYHEW

1883–1953, American general, b. Walla Walla, Wash. Commissioned in the army in 1906, he reached the rank of brigadier general in 1938. In World War II he was stationed in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked in Dec., 1941. Wainwright took command after Gen. Douglas MacArthur was ordered to leave and led (Mar.–May, 1942) the gallant but vain fight that ended in the surrender of Bataan and Corregidor. He described his hard experiences as a prisoner of war in General Wainwright's Story (1946). Released (1945) from a prison camp in Manchuria, he witnessed (1945) the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay and then returned to the United States and was given the Medal of Honor. He was made a full general in 1945 and in 1947 retired from the army.

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General Wainwright's Story: The Account of Four Years of Humiliating Defeat, Surrender, and Captivity
Book by Jonathan M. Wainwright, Robert Considine; Doubleday, 1946
Subjects: Generals--United States--Biography, Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew--1883-1953, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American, World War, 1939-1945--Philippines--Bataan (Province), World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners And Prisons, Japanese
uncle of the general, killed by pirate, 281 Wainwright, Jonathan M., V., son of the general, 282 Wainwright, Maj. Gen. Jonathan Mayhew, narrator, I ff.; promoted to lieutenant general, commander in chief...
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The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts
Book by William Rose Benét; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Literature--Dictionaries, Music--Dictionaries
...1852 . His son, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright 1821-1863...Mississippi. His grandson, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright 1883- , an officer in...May, 1942 . Cf. General Wainwrights Story by General Jonathan M. Wainwright, edited...
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Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Army
Book by Jerold E. Brown; Greenwood, 2001
Subjects: United States--Army--History--Dictionaries
...Fights and Fighters, 1971. Jerry Keenan, The Wagon Box Fight, 3d ed., 1992. Jack Gifford WAINWRIGHT, JONATHAN MAYHEW (1883-1953) Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright was bom in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1883 and graduated from the U.S. Military...
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Who's Who in Twentieth Century Warfare
Book by Spencer C. Tucker; Routledge, 2001
Subjects: Military Art And Science--History--20th Century, Military Biography--Dictionaries, Military History, Modern--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries
...after the war in January 1946. Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew IV (1883-1953) U.S...from West Point (1906), Wainwright served in the U.S. and the...Division in France. After the war Wainwright reverted to the rank of captain...
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Biographical Dictionary of World War II
Book by Mark M. Boatner III; Presidio Press, 1996
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Biography--Dictionaries
...Hamilton, Leaders , 206 . WAINWRIGHT, Jonathan Mayhew. US general. 1883-1953...Mar 42, Lt Gen "Skinny" Wainwright surrendered his forces on 6...rest of the war as a POW. Wainwright was born 2 Aug 83 in Walla...
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Phi Alpha Theta Initiates
Journal article; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
...Mann, Ryan S. McKenney, Jonathan N. Minjoe, Sarah A. Orao...Janutolo, Ryan P. McCleary, Jonathan D. Medley, Stephawn D...Gruber, Christine L. Hamlet, Jonathan Harper, Chad Michael Hawley...Sadie Louise Vance, Erica Wainwright, Logan D. Warne, Barbara...
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Super Medians
Journal article by Lee Epstein, Tonja Jacobi; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Judges--Evaluation, Judicial selection--History
...measure, see, for example, DAVID R. MAYHEW, DIVIDED WE GOVERN 9 (1991); Lee...Twenty-one years later, in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), Justice...71, 73. (78.) See, e.g., Jonathan H. Adler, How Conservative is this...


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Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WAINWRIGHT, JONATHAN MAYHEW 1883 1953, American general, b...Japanese attacked in Dec., 1941. Wainwright took command after Gen. Douglas...as a prisoner of war in General Wainwrights Story (1946). Released (1945...


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