Walla Walla, Washington
Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center
77 Wainwright Drive
GPS coordinates: 46.052728,-118.357186
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Born in Walla Walla, General Jonathan "Skinny" Wainwright IV came from a long line of army officers and graduated from West Point Academy. He was a career army officer and commander of the allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Japanese. He was the highest-ranking American POW and suffered much mistreatment in the prison camps. He was highly respected by his men and was known as a "fighting general," someone who got down in the foxholes to fight with everyone else.

After being freed by the Red Army in 1945, he witnessed the surrender of Japanese forces on board the USS Missouri and then the surrender of the Japanese in the Philippines. He came back to the U.S. to receive the Medal of Honor that reads:

"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."

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