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[Photograph 2012.201.B0319B.0195]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Winston A. Jones (left) escaped form a Jap prison camp on Luzon, the two U. S Army Captains joined Filipino guerillas and fought against the Japs for nearly three years before General Macarthur returned with forces to overwhelm enemy defenders of the Philippines."
Date: May 4, 1945
Creator: United States. Coast Guard.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1344.0573]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a tragic chaper in American military history. The army releasing the picture Monday, said that was real surrender of American forces in the Phillippines in 1942. At the microphone is Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, commanding officer of U.S. forces there after General MacArthur was sent away."
Date: March 6, 1945
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1344.0576]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lt. gen. Jonathan Wainwright, commander of American Forces on Philippines after Gen Douglas MacArthur left in 1942, shceks sript of surrender boradcast at manial, accoridn to army caption of this picture obtained in Manila after Yanks recaptured the city from the Japanese. Left to right, Lt. col. John R. Pugh, Jap official, Gen Wainwright, Col. Nicoll F. Galbraith and col. Nunez C. Pilet."
Date: March 5, 1945
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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