
New book reveals untold story of Gen. Wainwright, highest-ranking American POW of World War II
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On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, learn about Gen. Jonathan Wainwright's heroic last stand in the Philippines during WWII and his years as a Japanese prisoner of war.
Dana Perino: Who was Gen. Jonathan Wainwright? Dana Perino currently co-anchors FOX News Channel's (FNC) morning news program America’s Newsroom (weekdays 9-11 AM/ET) and serves as co-host of The Five (weekdays 5-6 PM/ET), the most watched program in cable news. Perino also hosts FOX News Audio’s weekly podcast Perino on Politics. She joined the network in 2009 as a contributor.
Jonathan Horn: Gen. Wainwright was a gritty cavalryman who grew up in Montana not far from the Little Bighorn battlefield — the site of one of history’s most famous last stands — but who could not have known that he would one day have to make a last stand of his own. It happened in the Philippines (then an American colony) during the early days of World War II, when the Japanese invaded the islands after attacking Pearl Harbor.