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General liberated from JapsCHUNGKING, Aug. 19. — (U.P.) — Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, who led American and Filipino forces in the last tragic days of Bataan and Corregidor, has been found alive and in good shape in a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria and will be flown here shortly, it was announced officially today.(An ABC correspondent at Chungking reported that marine Lt. Col. James P. Devereaux. who led the heroic garrison on Wake Island in 1941 and 1942. also had been found safe in a Japanese prison camp at Peiping, China.)Wainwright was found by teams of U. S. doctors and signal corps men who—working closely with the Chinese underground—parachuted down Thursday within 300 yards of the ramp at Hsian, 100 miles northwest of Mukden. The relief team landed without casualties and without molestation by the Japanese.With Wainwright were seven other Americans, 16 British, and 10 Dutch officials, including TJarda Van Starkenborgh Stachouwer. gov-emor-general of the Dutch East Indies.(Mrs. Wainwright in Skn-cateles, N. Y„ said the news was “just wonderful.)The tall and lanky general who will be 62 years old on Thursday, surrendered his sick and weary army to the Japanese on May 6, 1942, after weeks of relentless bombing and shelling by superior enemy i forces.Wainwright, promoted to lieutenant general on Mar. 19, 1942, took over when Gen. Douglas Mae Arthur was transferred to Australia in March of that year. Bataan fell Apr. 9 and for almost a month the men on “Wain-wright’s rock — Corregidor — and the island fortresses of Frank, Hughes, and Drum —held out against desperate enemy attacks. Wainwright had one chance to escape, but he turned lt down. “I(Continued on Page Two)
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Los Angeles Southern California University Daily Trojan
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