Frank Hewlett

Frank West Hewlett (1913 in Pocatello, Idaho – July 7, 1983) was an American journalist and war correspondent during World War II. He was the Manila bureau chief for United Press at the outbreak of war, and was the last reporter to leave Corregidor before it fell to the Japanese.

Education Hewlett obtained his degree from Idaho State University. He was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Departing Corregidor before it fell, at the instruction of Douglas MacArthur, Hewlett followed Frank Merrill in the China-Burma-India theater, then coined the term Angels of Bataan. She was interned at Santo Tomas Internment Camp and was not part of the prisoner exchange in the early part of the war, to his disappointment. They reunited during the raid to free the survivors in February 1945. She died in 1979. Later he would briefly work for the Department of Defense before returning to the private sector.

Death Hewlett died at the age of 74 in Arlington, Virginia from bronchial pneumonia. He was survived by his sister, daughter, and two grandchildren.