General Jonathan Wainwright Surrenders the Philippines - KZRH Radio Manila Broadcast (May 6, 1942) скачать в хорошем качестве

General Jonathan Wainwright Surrenders the Philippines - KZRH Radio Manila Broadcast (May 6, 1942)

The full recording of General Jonathan M. Wainwright surrendering the Philippines to the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War, broadcast on KZRH Radio in Manila during May 6th of 1942 on 11:40 pm. This particular recording was taken from NBC in Los Angeles, which received the signal and replayed the broadcast the following day. Subtitles may be inaccurate, it was hard to make out words from the 80+ year old warped audio recording. As described by HISTORY.com: "On May 6, 1942, U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders all U.S. troops in the Philippines to the Japanese. The island of Corregidor remained the last Allied stronghold in the Battle of the Philippines after the Japanese victory at Bataan (from which General Wainwright had managed to flee, to Corregidor). Constant artillery shelling and aerial bombardment attacks ate away at the American and Filipino defenders. Although still managing to sink many Japanese barges as they approached the northern shores of the island, the Allied troops could hold the invader off no longer. General Wainwright, only recently promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and commander of the U.S. armed forces in the Philippines, offered to surrender Corregidor to Japanese General Homma, but Homma wanted the complete, unconditional capitulation of all American forces throughout the Philippines. Wainwright had little choice given the odds against him and the poor physical condition of his troops (he had already lost 800 men). He surrendered at midnight. All 11,500 surviving Allied troops were evacuated to a prison stockade in Manila."