Need Research Help

JALU3 · 02-22-08, 01:36 AM

I have been told that there is an officer who died while serving with the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment, Army of the United States, who graduated at the United States Naval Acadamy. The officer was denied a commission upon graduating during World War II due to his ethnicity, and was thus given a commission in the Infantry Corps of the United States Army.
Now I have looked online, and have not found any information regarding this through the USNA Alumni Association. How would I go about finding out the validity of this statement. The statement is made in a documentary I saw on PBS on Filipino American History produced in Washington State.

Any help would be greatly appretiated.

02-22-08, 01:36 AM	#1
JALU3 Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2007 Location: 11SMS 98896 10565 Posts: 756 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Need Research Help I have been told that there is an officer who died while serving with the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment, Army of the United States, who graduated at the United States Naval Acadamy. The officer was denied a commission upon graduating during World War II due to his ethnicity, and was thus given a commission in the Infantry Corps of the United States Army. Now I have looked online, and have not found any information regarding this through the USNA Alumni Association. How would I go about finding out the validity of this statement. The statement is made in a documentary I saw on PBS on Filipino American History produced in Washington State. Any help would be greatly appretiated. __________________ "The Federation needs men like you, doctor. Men of conscience. Men of principle. Men who can sleep at night... You're also the reason Section Thirty-one exists -- someone has to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your sense of right and wrong." -Sloan, Section Thirty-One