 I told him that from then on I wanted him to run his command from his headquarters . In the airplane he was just extra baggage . He was probably not as good in any job on the plane as the man already assigned to it . In fact , in case of trouble , he was in the way . On the other hand , he was the best bombardment commander I had and I wanted to keep him so that the planning and direction would be good and his outfit take minimum losses in the performance of their missions . One of the big reasons for keeping him home was that I would hate to have him taken prisoner by the Japs . They would have known that a general was bound to have access to a lot of information and there was no limit to the lengths they would go to extract that knowledge from him . We had plenty of evidence that the <unk> had tortured their prisoners until they either died or talked . After the prisoners talked they were beheaded , anyhow , but most of them had broken under the strain . I told Walker that frankly I didn 't believe he could take it without telling everything he knew , so I was not going to let him go on any more combat missions . 
