World War II Chronicle: March 17, 1942

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Today’s front page reports that Gen. MacArthur has been transferred to Australia, Rommel’s Afrikakorps is on the move in Libya, and Japanese troops are attacking U.S. forces at Bataan… Below the fold, Chief Harold F. Dixon has earned the Navy Cross after he and his crew survived 34 days adrift in the South Pacific in a life raft…

Page six discusses three officers involved in Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s reassignment: Maj. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, Maj. Gen. Richard Sutherland, and Brig. Gen. Harold George. Wainwright led the delaying action in North Luzon, and has taken command of forces at Bataan in MacArthur’s absence. Sutherland, MacArthur’s Chief of Staff, and George, MacArthur’s air force chief, both enlisted in the National Guard and served on the border with Mexico in 1916. During the first world war Wainwright (a cavalry veteran of the Philippine-American War) served as the 82nd Infantry Division’s assistant chief of staff, Sutherland was a captain on the Western Front, and George scored five aerial victories over France made him a flying ace.

Wainwright’s grandfather Jonathan II was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy who was killed in action during the Civil War and his father Robert, a cavalry officer, was killed in the Philippines. Sutherland remains MacArthur’s chief of staff throughout the war. George will perish in an aircraft accident in April.

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