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Very vivid personal account of a young Filipino officer: PMA cadet scheduled to graduate in March 1942 is engulfed by war on the first day, and thrust into battle. His entire class was commissioned ahead of schedule, and the young officers became…

Biography of a promising Filipino professional officer who did not survive the war.

Jurado was one of the few Filipinos to graduate from the US Naval Academy at West Point, and became the chief of the Philippine Army’s Off Shore Patrol in 1941.…