Dominador Figuracion: First to Confront the Invading Japanese

More than 50,000 native Filipino servicemen were captured when the US surrendered The Philippines in 1942.

Filipino servicemen outnumbered Americans at least 6 to 1 during WW2 in The Philippines. Yet we hear so little about them.

And more than half never made it home. 

Among those 50K Filipino POWs was 21-year-old Private Dominador Figuracion.

He rode in one of the US Army’s last horse-mounted cavalry units – and was among the first soldiers to confront the Japanese ground invasion army in The Philippines. Then he participated in the last horse-mounted cavalry charge in US history.

 

What would be Dominator Figuracion's fate: death in captivity? Or was he among those who actually survived WW2?

 

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