This candid photograph from a 1949 album commemorating General Jonathan M. Wainwright captures guests mingling at a banquet or reception held in his honor. Wainwright, who commanded the besieged defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and endured over three years as a Japanese prisoner of war, became a national hero upon his 1945 liberation, and was widely celebrated at civic and veterans' events throughout the late 1940s. Project: 218337