Dominador Figuracion: First to Confront the Invading Japanese

2023-03-06

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 Phil...

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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