J. M. Wainwright
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew (1883–1953), a United States army officer. In the last days of the battle of Bataan (1942) in the Philippines during World War II, Wainwright succeeded General Douglas MacArthur as commander of all American and Filipino forces on the islands. He later had to surrender to the Japanese after a gallant last stand at Corregidor, and was held in a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria for three years. An American rescue team freed him in time for him to be present at the formal Japanese surrender on the battleship Missouri in 1945.
Wainwright, an army officer's son, was born at Walla Walla, Washington, and graduated from West Point in 1906. He served in World War I with the 82nd Division. Wainwright was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery in World War II.