Jonathan M. Wainwright (general)

Wainwright, nicknamed "Skinny" and "Jim", was born at Fort Walla Walla, a former Army post near Walla Walla, Washington. His father was a U.S. Army officer who was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Cavalry in 1875, rose to the rank of major, commanded a squadron of the 5th Cavalry at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War, and, in 1902, died of disease in the Philippines.{{Cite journal |last=Wainwright |first=Peter |date=1997 |title=Remembering the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, Their Commanding General, Jonathan M. Wainwright, IV, and his Weapons |url=https://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/articles/ |journal=American Society of Arms Collectors |volume=76 |issue=Spring}} His grandfather was Lieutenant Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright II, USN, who was killed in action during the Battle of Galveston in 1863. Congressman J. Mayhew Wainwright was a cousin.{{cite journal|title=Deaths: J. Mayhew Wainwright|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=en3kAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA110|journal=The Living Church|page=22|location=Milwaukee, WI|publisher=Morehouse-Gorham Co.|date=June 17, 1945}}

Wainwright graduated from Highland Park High School in Illinois in 1901, and from West Point in 1906.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=December 13, 1945 |title=1945: Old Friends to Greet Gen. Jonathan M.Wainwright |url=https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/history/blogs/tales-from-the-morgue/2009/12/15/1945-old-friends-to-greet-gen-jonathan-mwainwright/31519579/ |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=El Paso Times |language=en-US}} He served as First Captain of the Corps of Cadets.{{cite book| last1=Kingseed| first1=Cole Christian| year=2006|title=Old Glory Stories: American Combat Leadership in World War II|url={{Google books|plainurl=yes|id=IB2sUAwbm0IC|page=56}}|publisher=Naval Institute Press|page=56|isbn=978-1591144403|access-date=December 7, 2013}}

He was commissioned in the cavalry,{{Cite web |date=June 29, 2022 |title=Fort Leavenworth Hall of Fame World Wars I and II |url=https://usacac.army.mil/sites/default/files/documents/cace/CARL/History/ww2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001181345/http://usacac.army.mil/sites/default/files/documents/cace/CARL/History/ww2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 October 2015 |website=US Army Combined Arms Center}} serving with the 1st Cavalry Regiment (United States) in Texas from 1906 to 1908 and in the Philippines from 1908 to 1910, during which time he saw combat on Jolo, during the Moro Rebellion. Wainwright graduated from the Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1916 and was promoted to Captain. By 1917, he was on the staff of the first officer training camp at Plattsburgh, New York.

In 1911, Wainwright married Adele "Kitty" Holley, and had one child with her, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright V (1913–1996).{{Cite web |title=Wainwright, General Jonathan Mayhew, IV (1883–1953) |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/9212 |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=www.historylink.org}}

In February 1918, during World War I, Wainwright was ordered to France. In June, he became assistant chief of staff of the U.S. 82nd Infantry Division, with which he took part in the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. As a temporary lieutenant colonel, he was assigned to occupation duty in Germany with the 3rd Army at Koblenz, Germany, from October 1918 until 1920. Having reverted to the rank of captain, he was then promoted to major.

After a year as an instructor at the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Wainwright was attached to the general staff from 1921 to 1923 and assigned to the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, Fort Myer, Virginia, from 1923–25. In 1929, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and graduated from the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1931, and from the Army War College in 1934.

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Wainwright was promoted to colonel in 1935, and served as commander of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment until 1938, when he was promoted to brigadier general in command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Fort Clark, Texas.

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In September 1940, Wainwright was promoted to major general (temporary) and returned to the Philippines, in December, as commander of the Philippine Department.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/9831.asp|title=General Wainwright Comes to Louisiana (November 2016) {{!}} Archive - 2016 {{!}} Rickey Robertson {{!}} Local Writers' Columns {{!}} Center for Regional Heritage Research {{!}} SFASU|website=www.sfasu.edu|access-date=2020-02-15}}

As the senior field commander of Filipino and US forces under General Douglas MacArthur, Wainwright was responsible for resisting the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, which began in December 1941. On 8 December 1941, he commanded the North Luzon Force, comprising three reserve Filipino divisions and the 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts).[http://niehorster.org/013_usa/_41_usarmy/philippines/usaffe_luzon-north.htm Order of Battle, U.S. Army Forces in the Far East. North Luzon Force, 8 December 1941] Retreating from the Japanese beachhead of Lingayen Gulf, Allied forces had withdrawn onto the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor by January 1942, where they defended the entrance to Manila Bay.Louis Morton [https://web.archive.org/web/20100603153057/http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/5-2/5-2_32.htm The Fall of the Philippines] (Washington: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1953), 2016 update, pp. 199ff.

Following the evacuation of MacArthur to Australia in March to serve as Allied Supreme Commander, South West Pacific Area, Wainwright inherited the unenviable position of Allied commander in the Philippines.{{Cite journal |last=Klimow |first=Mathew |date=December 1990 |title=Lying to the Troops: American Leaders and the Defense of Bataan |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA518403.pdf |journal=Parameters Quarterly}} Also that March, Wainwright was promoted to lieutenant general (temporary). On 9 April, the 70,000 troops on Bataan surrendered under the command of Major General Edward P. King. On 5 May, the Japanese attacked Corregidor. Due to lack of supplies (mainly food and ammunition){{Cite book|title=How Far That Little Candle...|last=Tyler|first=Floyd E|publisher=Midwest Beach, Inc.|year=1967|location=Sioux Falls, South Dakota|pages=15}} and in the interest of minimizing casualties, Wainwright notified Japanese General Masaharu Homma he was surrendering on 6 May.

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Wainwright at the same time sent a coded message to Major General William F. Sharp, in charge of forces on Mindanao naming him as commander of all forces in the Philippines, excepting those on Corregidor and three other islands in Manila Bay. Sharp was now to report to General MacArthur, now stationed in Australia. This was to cause as few troops as possible to be surrendered. Homma refused to allow the surrender of any less than all the troops in the Philippines and considered the troops on and around Corregidor to be hostages to ensure other forces in the Philippines would lay down their arms. Wainwright then agreed to surrender Sharp's men.Louis Morton [https://web.archive.org/web/20100603153057/http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/5-2/5-2_32.htm The Fall of the Philippines] (Washington: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1953), 2016 update, pp. 564-70.

General Sharp was placed in a difficult position. He knew if he ignored Wainwright's wish for him to surrender that the hostage troops and civilians at Corregidor could be massacred. Though his troops were badly mauled, they could still put up a fight. It had been expected they would fight on as a guerrilla force. In the end, on 10 May, Sharp decided to surrender. Sharp's surrender proved problematic for the Japanese. For although Sharp and many of his men surrendered and suffered as prisoners of war until liberated in 1945, a large number of Sharp's men — the vast majority of them Filipino — refused to surrender. Some soldiers considered Wainwright's surrender to have been made under duress, and ultimately decided to join the guerrilla movement led by Colonel Wendell Fertig.Morton, pp. 576-77.

By 9 June, Allied forces had completely surrendered. Wainwright had been held in prison camps in northern Luzon, Formosa, and Liaoyuan (then called Xi'an and a county within Manchukuo) until he was rescued by the Russian Red Army from a POW camp in Manchuria on August 23, 1945.{{cite web|accessdate=June 23, 2025 |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-23/senior-u-s-pow-is-released

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Wainwright was the highest-ranking American POW, and, despite his rank, his treatment at the hands of the Japanese was no less unpleasant than that of most of his men. When he met General MacArthur in August 1945 shortly after his liberation, he had become thin and malnourished from three years of mistreatment during captivity. He witnessed the Japanese surrender aboard the {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}} on 2 September and was given one of five pens (along with British Lieutenant General Arthur Percival) that MacArthur used to sign the document.{{Cite web |title=Witnesses: Percival & Wainwright on V-J Day |url=https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/general-percival-general-wainwright-vj-day |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=The National WWII Museum {{!}} New Orleans |date=30 August 2020 |language=en}} Together with Percival, he returned to the Philippines to receive the surrender of the local Japanese commander, General Tomoyuki Yamashita.{{cite web|accessdate=June 23, 2023 |url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F01680

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Dubbed by his men a "fighting" general who was willing to get down in the foxholes, Wainwright won the respect of all who were imprisoned with him. He agonized over his decision to surrender Corregidor throughout his captivity, feeling that he had let his country down. Upon release, the first question he asked was how people back in the U.S. thought of him, and he was amazed when told he was considered a hero. He later received the Medal of Honor, an honor which had first been proposed early in his captivity, in 1942, but was rejected due to the vehement opposition of General MacArthur, who felt that Corregidor should not have been surrendered. MacArthur did not oppose the renewed proposal in 1945.Murphy, E. Heroes of WW II (1990), pp 32–34.{{cite web|url=https://homeofheroes.com/heroes-stories/world-war-ii/family-feud/|title=Family Feud – A Tale of Two Generals|first=C. Douglas|last=Sterner|location=Pueblo, Colorado}}

On 5 September 1945, shortly after the Japanese surrender, Wainwright was promoted to four-star general. On 7 September, Wainwright would oversee the ceremony which led to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender documents being exhibited at the National Archives.{{cite web|title=Surrender of Japan (1945)|date=28 September 2021 |url=https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/surrender-of-japan|access-date=2024-09-01|publisher=National Archives}} On 13 September, a ticker-tape parade in New York City was held in his honor.{{cite news |title=City Hails Hero of the Rock Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106827441/city-hails-hero-of-the-rock-today-part/ |first=John |last=Martin |newspaper=The New York Daily News |location=Oakland, California |agency=UP |pages=C3, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25412184/daily-news/ C8] |date=September 13, 1945 |access-date=2020-08-17}} On 28 September, he was named commander of the Second Service Command and the Eastern Defense Command at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York.{{cite news|title=Wainwright Named Eastern Defense Head|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/09/29/305519542.pdf|work=The New York Times|date=September 29, 1945|access-date=2020-09-27 |url-access=subscription}}

On 11 January 1946, he was named commander of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, filling the vacancy left by the 21 November 1945 death of Lieutenant General Alexander Patch.{{cite news|title=Wainwright Named Head of Fourth Army Head|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/01/12/88331378.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 12, 1946|access-date=2020-09-27 |url-access=subscription}} Patch, formerly commander of the Seventh Army in the closing days of World War II, had returned to the United States in August 1945 because of poor health to head the Fourth Army.

Wainwright retired on 31 August 1947, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 64, stating that he was reluctant to do so.{{cite news|title=Wainwright Takes His Last Review: Hero of Bataan Deeply Moved as He is Retired in Fort Sam Houston Ceremonies|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/09/01/104332771.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 1, 1947|access-date=2020-09-27 |url-access=subscription}}

He became a Freemason in May 1946 at Union Lodge No. 7. in Junction City, Kansas, and a Shriner soon after.{{cite book|last1=Wainwright|first1=Jonathan|title=10,000 Famous Freemasons; 1957 Edition|publisher=Macoy Publishing|volume=4: Q-Z|pages=405–06|author2=William R. Denslow|author3=Forward: Harry S. Truman}}{{cite web|last1=Wainwright|first1=Jonathan|title=Online Scanned Copy of 10,000 Freemasons|url=http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_4_Q_to_Z.htm|work=Volume 4, 1957 Edition|publisher=Phoenixmasonry.org|access-date=July 31, 2012|author2=William Denslow|author3=Macoy publishing}}{{cite web|last1=Wainwright|first1=Jonathan M.|title=Hero of Bataan|url=http://srjarchives.tripod.com/1998-09/KAPP.HTM|work=1989–90 Masonic Research|publisher=srjarchives.tripod.com|access-date=July 30, 2012|author2=Stephen J. Kapp|author3=Source, Denslo}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y|date=July 2012}}{{cite web|last=Wainwright|first=General Jonanthan|title=Grand Lodge of Kansas-Masons|url=http://www.kansasmason.org/?page_id=8|work=Masons of Kansas|date=4 September 2010 |publisher=kansasmasons.org|access-date=July 30, 2012}}

In 1948, he was elected the national commander of Disabled American Veterans (DAV).{{cite web |title=DAV History Annex |url=https://www.dav.org/wp-content/uploads/DAVHistory_Annex.pdf |website=DAV |access-date=12 July 2022}}

About 1935, Wainwright was elected a Hereditary Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (insignia number 19087) by right of his grandfather's service in the Union Navy during the Civil War. He was also a Compatriot of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (national number 66232 and state number 7762). His membership application for the SAR was endorsed by General Douglas MacArthur.

He served on the board of directors for several corporations after his retirement. He made himself available to speak before veterans' groups and filled almost every request to do so. He never felt any bitterness toward MacArthur for his actions in the Philippines or MacArthur's attempt to deny him the Medal of Honor. In fact, when it appeared that MacArthur might be nominated for president at the 1948 Republican National Convention, Wainwright stood ready to make the nominating speech.

He died of a stroke in San Antonio, Texas on 2 September 1953, aged 70.{{cite news|title=Wainwright In Semi-Coma. War Hero Suffers 2d Stroke in San Antonio Hospital|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/09/02/archives/wainwright-in-semicoma-war-hero-suffers-2d-stroke-in-san-antonio.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 2, 1953|access-date=2015-12-05 |page=2 |url-access=subscription}}

Wainwright was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, next to his wife and near his parents.{{Cite web |title=Jonathan M. Wainwright |url=https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Notable-Graves/Medal-of-Honor-Recipients/World-War-II-MoH-recipients/Jonathan-M-Wainwright |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=www.arlingtoncemetery.mil}} Present during the funeral were Omar Bradley, George Marshall and Edward King, with a conspicuous absence of MacArthur.{{Cite web |title=Wainwright Buried With High Tribute |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106828028/wainwright-buried-with-high-tribute/ |access-date=2022-08-02 |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=16 |location=Washington |agency=AP |date=1953-09-09}} He was buried with a Masonic service, and is one of the few people to have had their funeral held in the lower level of the Memorial Amphitheater.{{cite news|title=Service for Wainwright. Cavalryman's Rites in Texas to Precede Arlington Burial|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/09/04/archives/service-foi-wainwright-cavalryman-s-rites-in-texas-toi-precede.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 4, 1953|access-date=2015-12-05 |url-access=subscription}}{{Failed verification|date=December 2017}}

Rank and Organization: General, Commanding U.S. Army Forces in the Philippines. Place and date: Philippine Islands, 12 March to 7 May 1942. Entered Service at: Skaneateles, N.Y. Birth: Walla Walla, Wash. G.O. No.: 80, 19 September 1945.

Citation:

Distinguished himself by intrepid and determined leadership against greatly superior enemy forces. At the repeated risk of life above and beyond the call of duty in his position, he frequented the firing line of his troops where his presence provided the example and incentive that helped make the gallant efforts of these men possible. The final stand on beleaguered Corregidor, for which he was in an important measure personally responsible, commanded the admiration of the Nation's allies. It reflected the high morale of American arms in the face of overwhelming odds. His courage and resolution were a vitally needed inspiration to the then sorely pressed freedom-loving peoples of the world.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/wwII-t-z.html|title=Medal of Honor recipients World War II (T–Z)|publisher=United States Army Center of Military History|access-date=2009-04-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091231211059/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/wwII-t-z.html|archive-date=2009-12-31}}

General Wainwright was presented the Medal of Honor in an impromptu ceremony when he visited the White House on 10 September 1945; he was not aware that he was there to be decorated by President Harry S. Truman.

• Army General Staff Badge
• Conspicuous Service Cross, State of New York
• Distinguished Service Medal, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Mexican Medal of Military Virtue, 1st Class
• Polish Order of Virtuti Militari

• Knights Commander of the Court of Honour (K.C.C.H.) (Freemasonry)
• Grand Lodge of New York's Masonic Achievement Medal

• Wainwright Hall at Ft. Myer, Virginia, the former Officers' Club in named in honor of Wainwright.{{cite web|accessdate=June 23, 2025

|url=https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/History/Institutional/Quarters_Six.pdf |page=28|title=Quarters Six|publisher=Joint Chiefs of Staff|quote=Mule-drawn mower in front of the Officers’ Club and bachelor officers’ quarters at Fort Myer, Va. Built in 1896, the facility was later renamed Wainwright Hall, in honor of General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who commanded the 3rd Cavalry from 1923 to 1925.}}

• Fort Wainwright in Alaska is named for him.
• U.S. Army Wainwright Station, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas{{cite web|title=U.S. Army Recruiting Command Brigade and Battalion Public Affairs Offices|url=http://www.usarec.army.mil/hq/apa/download/apadir.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040221231905/http://www.usarec.army.mil/hq/apa/download/apadir.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 February 2004|date=March 16, 2009|work=Recruiting Command|publisher=U.S. Army|access-date=September 9, 2009}}
• A street, Wainwright Drive, was named after him in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• There is a street, Wainwright Drive, in El Paso, Texas named after Jonathan Wainwright, as was also an elementary school in the El Paso Independent School District; Wainwright Elementary School opened in 1949 and was closed and placed on reserve status in 2005 in light of the expansion of Fort Bliss through BRAC. It currently serves as a science education resource center; until November 2009; it also served as a student health center.
• The Veterans Hospital in Walla Walla, Washington is the Jonathan M. Wainwright IV Medical Center.
• There is a memorial to General Wainwright on Corregidor Island.{{cite web|accessdate=June 23, 2025 |url=https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/monument_details.php?SiteID=1427&MemID=1887|title=Corregidor Island - Memorial Park: General Jonathan M. Wainwright Monument|publisher=American War Memorials Overseas, Inc.}}
• There is a Wainwright Drive located in Skaneateles, New York, serving as the entrance to American Legion Post 239.
• There is a Wainwright Street located in the Twinbrook section of Rockville, Maryland.
• There is a Wainwright Drive in San Jose, California.
• There is a Wainwright Avenue in Closter, New Jersey.
• There is a Wainwright Court at California State University, Monterey Bay at the former Fort Ord
• The Jonathan M. Wainwright Award is named in his honor at the Freemasonic National Sojourners Marvin Shields Camp Heros of '76, Olympic Chapter No. 539 and is awarded yearly.
• There was a Wainwright School for US Air Force dependents at Tainan Air Base, Taiwan, from 1953 to 1976.
• There is a General Wainwright Drive in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
• There is a housing area on Fort Hood, Texas, called Wainwright Heights.{{cite web|url=http://www.hood.army.mil/dpw/Housing/photos_floor_plans.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140818212819/http://www.hood.army.mil/dpw/Housing/photos_floor_plans.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 August 2014|title=Photos and Floor Plans|author=|website=Directorate of Public Works, Fort Hood, Texas |publisher=United States Army|access-date=August 18, 2014}}
  {{cite news|last=Lozano|first=Madison|date=January 12, 2014|title=Fort Hood Housing |url=http://kdhnews.com/military/fort-hood-housing-offers-security-sense-of-community/article_a3f25aa0-7b4f-11e3-b97d-001a4bcf6878.html|newspaper=Killeen Daily Herald|access-date=August 18, 2014}}
• There is a Wainwright Street in Benicia, California (1942 residential subdivision) {{citation needed|date=May 2018}}
• Wainwright VFW Post 2185 in Panama City, Florida {{citation needed|date=May 2018}}
• Wainwright Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District is named after him.{{Cite web|url=https://www.houstonisd.org/domain/39032|title=School Information / About Wainwright|website=Wainwright Elementary|access-date=March 22, 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322203839/https://www.houstonisd.org/domain/39032|archive-date=March 22, 2020}}

In the film MacArthur (1977), Wainwright was portrayed by Sandy Kenyon.• {{cite book|author=Gerard Molyneaux|title=Gregory Peck: A Bio-bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VUrUeKBmnUYC&pg=PA184|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28668-1|page=184}}
• {{cite book|author=Robert J. Lentz|title=Korean War Filmography: 91 English Language Features through 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ppc-CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA197|year= 2003|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3876-1|page=197}}

• {{Cite book|title=General Wainwright's Story|first=Jonathan M.|last=Wainwright|author2=Robert Considine|orig-year=1945|year=1986|isbn=0-553-24061-7|publisher=Bantam|location=New York}}

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