Wainwright, Jonathan (1883–1953)

US general. He served in the Philippines in 1940 as commander of the North Luzon Force, consisting of four infantry divisions, a cavalry regiment, and supporting artillery. Under the command of MacArthur he fell back into the Bataan peninsula when the Japanese invaded in 1941 and held out until April 1942. He then fell back on Corregidor, but was unable to withstand the Japanese invasion, and surrendered on May 5, 1942. He took part in the Bataan Death March, survived to be imprisoned in Manchuria for the remainder of the war, and was present to see the Japanese surrender signed on board USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.