The General Who Stayed: How Wainwright Faced Death After MacArthur Left the Philippines
The General Who Stayed: How Wainwright Faced Death After MacArthur Left the Philippines MacArthur sailed away in the darkness. Wainwright stayed. On March 11, 1942, General Douglas MacArthur departed the Philippines by PT boat on orders from President Roosevelt. He left behind 80,000 starving, sick American and Filipino soldiers — and Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright, who had just been handed the most hopeless command in American military history. This is the full story of what Wainwright did next. The siege of Bataan. The fall of Corregidor. The surrender decision that nearly destroyed his reputation — and why history now recognises it as one of the greatest acts of moral courage of World War II. Wainwright became the highest-ranking American prisoner of the Japanese. He spent three years in a Manchurian prison camp, carrying guilt about his men and uncertainty about history's verdict. He was liberated ten days before standing on the deck of USS Missouri to watch Japan sign its surrender. #WW2 #Wainwright #MacArthur #Philippines #Bataan #Corregidor #WW2Documentary #PacificWar #MilitaryHistory #BritishWarTales
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