How forgotten WWII hero Gen. Wainwright survived Japanese POW camps

Taking into account the United States on a day from the national prisoner to recognize the war on April 9, Fox News and former White House press secretary Dana Perino conducted an interview with the former White House writer and its historian Jonathan Horn about his latest book, “The fate of the generals“The book tells the true story of General Jonathan Winreret, the highest prisoner of World War II.

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Dana Perino: Who was General Jonathan Weneret?

Jonathan Horn: General Wainwright was one of the wonderful knights that grew up in Montana is not far from the small small battlefield – the location of one of the most famous stands in history – but he could not know that he would have one day and put another position on his own. This happened in the Philippines (then an American colony) during the early days of the Second World War, when the Japanese invaded the islands after attacking Perl Harbor.

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Winrayet became the largest leader of the United States in the Philippines after Douglas Mac Arthur received orders to escape from the islands, even when his forces fought against impossible possibilities. While McArthur pledged to return to the islands, Winaret led to the various oaths: to stay there and share the fate of his men, even if that means surrendering with them and becoming the American prisoner of the Supreme of the Japanese.

Perino: Why do the United States notice the day of the national recognition of the war on April 9?

Century: It is the anniversary of the largest surrender to the United States forces in history. When the Japanese landed in the Philippines in December 1941, the American and Philippine forces returned to the forests of the Patan Peninsula, where they fought without food or enough drug so that their bodies could fight. That sad day came on April 9, 1942.

Nearly 80,000 men put their arms. Those who survived the horror of the death march Patan will find new horrors as prisoners of the Japanese. Wainwright was continuing the conflict for another month on a small island called Corrregidor, a few miles away from Patan. He finally agreed to surrender himself and the rest of the Philippines only because he was afraid that the Japanese would make a massacre.

A picture of General Jonathan Winrayet’s forces to the Japanese on the small island of Corrichidor in the Philippines in May 1942. (National Archives)

Perino: What happened to Wainwright during his time as a prisoner of the Japanese?

Century: Winrayet remained a prisoner of the rest of the war. The Japanese exposed him to what he called “systematic hunger” and hit him as they transferred it from the Philippines to the camps in Taiwan and at the end to Manchuria.

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Perhaps harsh torture is isolated from the outside world. Do not receive any long periods of time and cut off from the news, worried that the American people will never forgive him for the decision he made to surrender for their men.

Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, to the left, embraces General Jonathan Winreret on August 31, 1945 after Winria’s release from prison. (National Archives)

Perino: When Wainwright returned to America after the war, he received a hero and honor medal. Why do you think that many Americans today are not familiar in his name?

Century: The story of Mac Arthur’s pledge to return to the Philippines overwhelmed the story of Winaret’s pledge to stay with his men there. More than four decades have passed since a biography of Winaret last time.

During that time, the personal waInwright papers, including its diaries and messages, are available for searching in the military archive. As a result, he can now tell his story in an unprecedented way and restore him to his right place in history.

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General Jonathan Winreret, who was wearing the medal of honor in the Congress he presented to him the day before by president Harry S. Truman, with his wife who leaves the White House in a convertible offer after the presentation. (Harris & Ewing, Harry S. Truman Library & Museum)

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Perino: What is the lesson in which you hope that the Americans today will be extracted from the Windite story?

Century: I hope that the Americans will remember today the lesson that Winaret himself has brought from his terrible ordeal: the need for military readiness. I also hope that he and his fellow warlords have never forgot the courage and the sacrifice they made to our country.

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“The Fate of Genoes: Macarthur, WAINWRIGHTT, and the epic battle of the Philippines” will be published by SCRIBNER on April 15.