GENERAL JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT IV - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 169061
Sale Price $495.00
Reg. $600.00
JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT
Led heroic defense of the Philippines in World War II
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Wes Baleria/Sincerely/J.M.
Wainwright/Genl. USA/(Retired)". B/w, 8x10. West Point graduate Jonathan
Wainwright (1883-1953) first went to the Philippines, where his father had died
suppressing an insurrection, in 1908. As a Captain with the 82nd Infantry
Division in World War I, he participated in the American offensives in France
in 1918, which compelled Germany's surrender. Back in the Philippines in
World War II, he skillfully deployed outnumbered U.S. and Filipino troops to
delay invading Japanese forces and buy time to prepare the Bataan Peninsula for
a last stand in the islands. After General MacArthur was ordered back to
Australia in March 1942, Wainwright took charge of the heroic American defense,
"the battling bastards of Bataan," and a final stand on the island fortress of
Corregidor. Out of ammunition and supplies, Wainwright surrendered the U.S.
forces on May 6, 1942. Freed from a Japanese prison camp near war's end, he
attended the Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo
Bay, September 2, 1945. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (and
his fourth star) in 1945. Ink skipped at "We" in inscription. Minor flaws in
original negative reproduced. Pinhead-size surface nick at upper blank
background. Overall, fine condition.
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