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★ more aboutWainwright(Continued from Page One)have been with my men from the start, and if captured I will share their lot,” he said. We have been through so much together that my conscience would not let me leave before the final curtain.”On May 10 Tokyo broadcast an account of Walnwright’s last days In the Philippines: «The surrender of the American commander was one of the mast pathetic scenes witnessed by Japanese expeditionary forces in the Philippines/’ Tokyo said.The initial step in the surrender of the American forces came when the six-foot-high American commander, haggard from lack ofsleep and from worry, advancedtoward the Japanese lines, carrying a white flag and accompanied by his aides.Ushered into the room of the Japanese commander, General Wainwright slumped into a chair. When the Japanese commander entered the room with his hands gripping the handle of a sword, Wainwright and his aides stood tip at rigid attention and saluted. The look of fatigue vanished from the faces of the American soldiers, and they showed they were soldiers above all.”After the surrender Wainwright was held for a time at Luzon, and then was removed to Formosa where he wrote Mrs. Wainwright that he had lost 33 pounds by June. 1943. In November, 1944, the Japanese shifted Wainwright to Manchuria.The parachutist rescue parties had no advance knowledge as to how they would be received by the Japanese. And although leaflets have been dropped near the camps
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