A different outcome in the Philippines-1942

Now when Macarthur left Bataan on his epic PT boat journey, he left Skinny Wainwright in charge of all American forces in the Philippines. When Corregidor fell, The Japs made Wainwright surrender all of these scattered units, and threatened to go hard on the prisoners they had in hand if all didn't capitulate. Gen. Sharp on Mindanao had a sizeable force, and there were other commands of varying sizes throught the archipelago. It has been suggested that Macarthur blundered by setting up the chain of command in this way.
Suppose that he had made it plain to everyone, before he left, that Wainwright was only in charge of the Bataan garrison, and all other commanders were to do as they saw fit. How long could Sharp and others have held out. Would this have allowed many more GIs, sailors, airmen, to have melted into the jungle to fight on as guerrilas? Some did this anyway in OTL. How much difference would this have made to the Japanese garrisons and could it have brought about a quicker, easier liberation once Macarthur did return in October of '44?
 
Part of the reason for the surrender was that Homma threatened to take hostages if Wainwright didn't surrender the entire force. If Wainwright had moved to Mindanao when Bataan fell, then the fall of Corregidor wouldn't have effectively ended resistance.

So, the alt-Philippine Campaign might have meant no attempt at Port Moresby, no Battle of the Coral Sea . . .
 
Hostage taking would be against the Geneva Convention, nes pas? Granted, I know the Japanese weren't signatories/believers in it, but having said that it wouldn't really look good on the Japanese and might galvanise existing resistance (maybe) Further it sets up Homma possibly for War-crimes post war if he wasn't OTL.
 
Hostage taking would be against the Geneva Convention, nes pas? Granted, I know the Japanese weren't signatories/believers in it, but having said that it wouldn't really look good on the Japanese and might galvanise existing resistance (maybe) Further it sets up Homma possibly for War-crimes post war if he wasn't OTL.

well since war crimes are only victors justice and the Japanese believe they would have won the war so they would not have been charged with anything.

You dont think if the Japanese and Nazi had of won the war if they would not have set up courts to try the "western war criminals"
 
well since war crimes are only victors justice and the Japanese believe they would have won the war so they would not have been charged with anything.

You dont think if the Japanese and Nazi had of won the war if they would not have set up courts to try the "western war criminals"
Yeah, the winners always win and the losers lose. For instance people claim that the atomic bombs were no less horific than the holocaust, as it targeted innocent civilians of particular race and not military targets (no comment on my part). If the Germans did manage to get a bomb and blow it up in a British town or something, the person in charge of the German project would be killed outright.
 

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Part of the reason for the surrender was that Homma threatened to take hostages if Wainwright didn't surrender the entire force.

I´m not 100% sure, but IIRC Homma did not actually do this, but somehow Wainwright got the impression he would.
 

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Yeah, the winners always win and the losers lose. For instance people claim that the atomic bombs were no less horific than the holocaust, as it targeted innocent civilians of particular race and not military targets (no comment on my part). If the Germans did manage to get a bomb and blow it up in a British town or something, the person in charge of the German project would be killed outright.
Oh god not this again
 
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