Captured Generals and Above
Marc David Miller
captured by their respective enemy during the war? How were they treated?
I assume the highest-ranking German was Paulos (made a Field Marshall before
the end of the Battle of Stalingrad).
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Guy Fort, BG, US Army -- Executed by Japanese Nov 42
Allan McBride, BG, US Army -- Died in camp, May 44
Vincent Lim, BG, US Army -- Executed by Japanese, date unsure
Jonathon Wainwright, LTG, US Army -- POW, Japan
On 16 Apr 2000 09:19:18 -0400, "Marc David Miller"
<MarcDav...@email.msn.com> wrote:
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Rich Rostrom
>Who were the highest-ranking British, American, Soviet and
>Japanese officers captured by their respective enemy during
>the war? How were they treated?
>
>I assume the highest-ranking German was Paulus (made a
>Field Marshall before the end of the Battle of Stalingrad).
British: Almost certainly Lt. Gen. Arthur Percival, GOC Malaya
Command in 1941-42.
American: Maj. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, OC US Army Forces Far
East (Philippine garrisons) after Macarthur was withdrawn to
Australia. (Wainwright was promoted to Lt. Gen. in 1942; don't
know whether this was before or after the surrender.)
Japanese: there were very few Japanese prisoners of any rank,
of course. And one may guess that officers were even more
determined to die rather than surrender. One group of prisoners
was a boat carrying survivors of the carrier HIRYU after the
battle of Midway - it surrendered to a US ship after two weeks
in the water. The group included Commander Kunizo Aiso.
Soviet: Lt. Gen. Andrei Vlasov was captured by the Germans
in the area ESE of St. Petersburg in 1942. He became the
nominal leader of the "Russian Army of Liberation" which
the Germans attempted to recruit from Soviet PoWs (though
Hitler was against the idea).
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> Who were the highest-ranking British, American, Soviet and Japanese officers
> captured by their respective enemy during the war?
On the night of 6/7 May 1944 52 Lancasters of One Group attacked an ammo
dump at Aubigne accurately and the entire target was destroyed. One
Lancaster was lost from 576 Squadron. ( My Uncle Bill was 576 ).
Along as the 8th passenger was Air Commodore R. Ivelaw-Chapman. He had only
just taken up his position as a Base Commander ( 3 airfields ) in One Group
after a Staff job in which he had access to details of the coming Invasion.
This caused great anxiety in Britain that he might survive the crach and
become a PW. He would certainly he handed over to the Gestapo for
questioning. He survived, was taken PW, but the Germans never realised
his great significance and he was treated in the normal manner.
GlennShiv
who surrendered with his forces at Corregidor. Following his surrender,
Wainwright was forced by the Japanese to make radio broadcasts to American
commanders and to the Philippine resistance, broadcasts that indicated the
Japanese planned to massacre prisoners on Corregidor. Wainwright was then
imprisoned in Manchuria, and was liberated by Russians in August 1945. He was
a much thinner and more haggard man than he was in 1942, but he nevertheless
lived through captivity as a POW.
The highest ranked British officer was Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Percival,
who surrendered with British forces at Singapore.
Both Wainwright and Percival survived captivity as POW's, and both were present
on the deck of the USS Missouri for the surrender of Japan on September 2,
1945.
Glenn Shiveler
>Who were the highest-ranking British, American, Soviet and Japanese officers
>captured by their respective enemy during the war? How were they treated?
>
>I assume the highest-ranking German was Paulos (made a Field Marshall before
il...@poisdlc.fi
<MarcDav...@email.msn.com> wrote:
>Who were the highest-ranking British, American, Soviet and Japanese officers
>captured by their respective enemy during the war? How were they treated?
>
>I assume the highest-ranking German was Paulos (made a Field Marshall before
>the end of the Battle of Stalingrad).
Gvring and Dvnitz were also POW.s.
Ilkka
Connal Townsend
British - Prisoners Of War
Three Star Rank
Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame VC KBE CB DSO (1888- ?) - (British
Army) - GOC-in-C Cyrenaica, captured 1941 and escaped 1943.
Lieutenant General Sir Richard O'Connor GCB DSO (1889-?) (British Army) -
GOC Western Desert Corps, captured 1941 but escaped December 1943.
Promoted full General 1945.
Air Marshall Owen Boyd (RAF) - captured. (His pilot landed in Italy by
mistake)
Two Star Rank
Major General Michael Denman Gambier-Parry (British Army) GOC 2nd Armoured
Division, POW Italy 1940 - 1944.
John
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> On 16 Apr 2000 09:19:18 -0400, "Marc David Miller"
> <MarcDav...@email.msn.com> wrote:
>
> >Who were the highest-ranking British, American, Soviet and Japanese officers
> >captured by their respective enemy during the war?
Fourteen American Generals, ranking from Lt.Gen. (Wainwright)through
Maj, Gen's to Brigadiers) were captured by the Japanese with the
surrender of the Philippines in May '42. This group included Wainwright,
Moore, King, Parker, Jones, Lough, Funk, Weaver, Brougher, Beebe,
Bluemel, Drake, McBride and Pierce. There may have been more captured in
the Pacific but I don't find their names. The Philippine bunch was
certainly the largest contingent of American general officers ever
captured in any conflict.
John Brookes
As I recall, only one American general was taken in the European war,
and I don't have his name
David Thornley
ted <ecw...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> How did O'Connor escaped? was he in North Africa, or did the Germans
>shipped him back to Europe for captivity...
>
I finally ran into a reference somewhere. He was sent to Italy as a
prisoner of war, and held there. During the botched Italian change
of sides, he escaped from confinement and managed to reach Allied lines.
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