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Surrender of American troops at Corregidor American and Filipino prisoners, captured at Corregidor, arrive at Bilibid prison by foot and truck as Japanese look on, 25 May 1942. Unlike the Filipinos and Americans on Bataan who surrendered to the Japanese forces, the Prisoners of War (POWs) in Corregidor were not subjected by the death march.
Record group: Record Group 208: Records of the Office of War Information, 1926 - 1951 (National Archives Identifier: 535)Series: Photographs of the Allies and Axis, compiled 1942 - 1945 (National Archives Identifier: 535523)
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 ...
William Fletcher Sharp (September 22, 1885 – March 30, 1947) was a United States Army major general.. Sharp, a career Army officer, commanded the Visayas–Mindanao Force during the Philippines campaign (1941–1942), and surrendered his command to the Japanese after the Fall of Corregidor.
On May 10, 1942, Wainwright went to meet Homma to discuss surrender terms of his forces in Corregidor, as Homma insisted on the surrender of all the forces in the Philippines or he will not accept Wainwright's surrender. [6]
During World War II, Corregidor was the site of two costly sieges and pitched battles—the first during the first months of 1942, and the second in February 1945—between the Imperial Japanese Army and the U.S. Army, along with its smaller subsidiary force, the Philippine Army. The surrender of U.S. forces at the Malinta Tunnel on May 6, 1942.
This was followed by Gen. Jonathan Wainwright's surrender of Corregidor on May 6, 1942, completing the occupation of Japan over the Philippines. [4] The POWs were then incarcerated in the Camp O'Donnell, where the IJA was ill-prepared to handle the numbers. The lack of supplies and basic needs has brought to 400 deaths per day among the POWs. [4]
[1] [2] The airplane left on April 13, 1942, and managed to avoid Japanese interception. [2] Sakakida accompanied General Jonathan Wainwright as his interpreter during the surrender negotiations. After the surrender of Corregidor in early May, "Sakakida became the only Japanese-American to be captured by the Japanese forces in the Philippines."