Table of Contents
Part 1:
The Early Years in Wilson, NC
Through Enlistment in the U. S. Army 1934
Part 2:
Enlistment in the U. S. Army 1934 through Part 3:
Pearl Harbor Day 1941, Prisoner of War
1992 Letter to Asbury L. Nix,
author of Corregidor: Oasis of Hope (1991)
1983 Interview with
Lt. Colonel E. D. Winstead
EDW Speech Manuscript/Transcript about 1939 - 1945 given Fall
1994
"E.
D. Winstead Day" TV Interviews and Speech Video March 31, 1995
EDW's January 1995 Letter
to Smithsonian about Enola Gay
The Private War of Captain Winstead, Keeper of the Warehouse of Bullets
(the untold story of an American Hero) by Hal Glickman EDW excerpt: "We got orders to stand down by noon on the sixth. What would happen next? We didn't kid ourselves. The reality was that we were under the control of the enemy. And General Moore reminded us that the Japanese showed their true colors in China, Malaysia and Pacific Islands conquests. We could expect them to operate on the same three objectives - slave labor, starvation and annihilation." EDW excerpt: "The exhilaration I felt with my destruction of the gunpowder and stacked charges was, of course, concealed from both the enemy and my fellow Americans. What I was doing carried a death sentence if found out. The only life risked on my course of action would be my own."
Note from RLW: My father E. D. Winstead was an Army officer on Corregidor with General MacArthur, and then he was a prisoner of war held in the Philippines for almost three years by the Japanese. This is what my father said about a couple of incidents with General MacArthur: 1) I recall my father telling me and others about an occasion when he and General MacArthur, along with a few others, were sitting at the same table eating a meal outside when one of the air attacks resumed. (This was before General MacArthur was ordered to leave the Philippines, before the surrender of Bataan, and before the shelling of Corregidor by Japanese artillery from Bataan.) This was outside, near the entrance to Malinta Tunnel. The others at the table immediately scattered for shelter, however General MacArthur just sat there, leaving General MacArthur and my father sitting at the table alone with each other. My father told us that he was waiting for General MacArthur to leave first. However, General MacArthur said to my father, “The enemy bomb that will kill me has not been made yet.” At that point my father said, “Please excuse me, General,” and left for shelter. I think this story illustrates that my father observed and believed that General MacArthur had an effective way to keep fear under absolute control. 2) In an interview, my father commented about a different occasion when he observed General MacArthur: “There is a very limited middle ground with MacArthur. They either like him or they dislike him. I happen to like the man. I lived with him, worked with him, observed him under fire. Fear to me is a normal emotion. I think that MacArthur, like everybody else, recognized fear. But he had it under absolute control. I have seen him stand in the middle of the road in a Japanese air-raid. After the air-raid was over, he got back in his automobile and went on to where he was headed to begin with. I think this is a little foolish, but — . “ For more information about my father, the Army officer and college professor, see http://raywinstead.com/edw/index.shtm.
American Prisoners of War in the Philippine Islands General Douglas MacArthur's "Dash" from the Philippines - 1942 Part 4: U. S. Army Service through Retirement 1957 Part 5: Doctorate from Duke University and Part 6: Retirement from Atlantic Christian College
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