Jose Calugas
Military Person
1907 – 1998
Who was Jose Calugas?
Jose Cabalfin Calugas was a member of the Philippine Scouts during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle of Bataan.
At the age of 23, Calugas joined the Philippine Scouts of the United States Army and completed training as an artilleryman and served with different artillery batteries of the Philippine Scouts until his unit was mobilized to fight in World War II. After noticing one of his unit's gun batteries had been destroyed and its crew killed, he gathered several members of his unit together, dug in and attempted to defend the line. He was captured along with other members of his unit and forced to march to a distant enemy prison camp, where he was held as a prisoner of war. When he was released in 1943, he was secretly assigned to a guerilla unit the Philippines where he fought for the liberation of the Philippines from the Japanese.
After World War II Calugas received a direct commission and became United States Citizen. Retiring from the Army, he settled in Tacoma, Washington.
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- Born
- Dec 29, 1907
Philippines - Also known as
- Jose Calugas, Sr.
- Ethnicity
- Filipino American
- Filipino
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Puget Sound
- Died
- Jan 18, 1998
Tacoma
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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