It was farewell to MacArthur and then right back to Luzon, where Wainwright had another ceremony to attend the next day. Disappointed that the Japanese had not selected Homma to represent them aboard the Missouri, Wainwright would have the pleasure of witnessing the surrender of another Japanese general reviled in the Philippines: Yamashita. More than fifty thousand of the troops under the command of the Tiger of Malaya had managed to hold out on the wing of the dragon-shaped island until the end of the war. They had made it months longer than the men under Wainwright had made it on Bataan and
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