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Home Town Gapan Nueva Ecija
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Enliksted Feb 1941 in Phillipine Scouts, 57th Infantry, at Ft William McKinley, Rizal, PI. Trained as clerk typist. Soon became infantryman.
Earned DSC serving as machine gunner on Bataan in 1942, killing numerous Japanese until gun stopped, killed more with his pistol until. it jammed, and took a rifle away from a charging Japanese and killed him and the last charging soldier with the bayonet. The Japanese force then retreated.
WIA at Balanga, Bataan, PI, 6 Jan 1942 head and left femur arm by bomb fragments.
Captured April 1942 at surrender of Bataan.
Endured Bataan Death March.
Endured 4 months as POW prior to release of Filipino Nationals Half of them had already died in the camps..
Became involved in spying against Japanese and in guerilla movement when Japanese began massacre of all old Phillipine Scouts when unraveling spy rings.
Fought as guerilla with MacArthurs units in 1944, then became part of reformed 57th Infantry, Phillipine Scouts and fought on, even mopping up holdouts in PI after the war was over.
1st enlistment 4 years 1 month 9 days
Discharged honorably as a Private 5th Class Specialist Clerk Typist from Service Company, 57th Infantry Regiment, Phillipine Scouts, United States Army. This was a discharge to enlist in the Army of the United States, as stated on his DD214. Sworn in as US Citizen in 1946.
served with 3rd Military police Battalion, Manilla, 1946.
Promoted to 2 LT 1946-49. Reverted to NCO in 1949.
Landed at Inchon.
Fought way out of Chosin resorvoir.
Retired from US Army as MSG August 1968.
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5'3", 118 pounds. blk, brn
Korean War/CCF Intervention (1950-51)/Chosin Reservoir (Battle of Changjin)
From Month/Year
November / 1950
To Month/Year
December / 1950
Description The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Changjin Lake Campaign was a decisive battle in the Korean War. "Chosin" is the Japanese pronunciation of the Korean name, "Changjin". The UN forces relied on Japanese language maps dating from their occupation of Korea which had only ended five years earlier at the conclusion of World War II. Shortly after the People's Republic of China entered the conflict, the People's Volunteer Army 9th Army infiltrated the northeastern part of North Korea.
On 27 November, the Chinese 9th Army surprised the US X Corps commanded by Major General Edward Almond at the Chosin Reservoir area. A brutal 17 day battle in freezing weather soon followed. In the period between 27 November and 13 December 1950, 30,000 United Nations troops (later nicknamed "The Chosin Few") under the field command of Major General Oliver P. Smith were encircled and attacked by approximately 120,000 Chinese troops under the command of Song Shi-Lun, who had been ordered by Mao Zedong to destroy the UN forces. The UN forces were nonetheless able to make a fighting withdrawal and broke out of the encirclement while inflicting crippling losses on the Chinese. While the battle resulted in the Chinese pushing the UN out of North Korea, it was a Pyrrhic victory. The evacuation of the X Corps from the port of Hungnam marked the complete withdrawal of UN troops from North Korea
