Remembering Day of Valor and my grandfather Francisco Palma Domingo, Sr; a native of Ilocos, he read literature and pre-law for his Associate in Arts degree at Far Eastern College (a liberal arts college then) and enrolled in the PMA late 1930s, 1/n.

He was awarded the rank of 3LT of the Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Army's 1st Regular Division on 03 October 1941. On 16 December 1941, his division was inducted into the US Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE), 2/n.

US Army General Douglas MacArthur combined defense forces in the Philippines to which were organized into the USAFFE, which included the Philippine Army's 1st Regular Division, 2nd (Constabulary) Division, and 10 mobilized reserve divisions, and the US Army's PH Department, 3/n.

No data to support if he went into hiding in Central Luzon or was captured by the Japs from 1942 to 1943. But in 1944 he suffered mild symptoms of malaria and was sent to Manila for medication where he recovered, it was confirmed later that it was not malaria, 4/n.

Fully recovered, he participated in the recapturing of Camp O'Donnell on 30 January 1945, and no recorded data to support that he participated in the Battle of Manila, I believe most Filipino soldiers who fought in Manila were guerillas, 5/n.

After the war, as a young Captain of the Philippine Army, he hunted down Communist Party (the old PKP) members in Central Luzon in the late 1940s. Scattered data from 1951 to the late 1970s, I'm not yet confident to share (schooling abroad, appointments, reports, etc.), 6/n.

Based on Lolo Frank's service records available in Camp Aguinaldo and had corroborated primary sources from Ricardo Jose's The Philippine Army 1935-1942; I have yet to look for his diaries at our ancestral home and records at Fort Bonifacio, after the pandemic [end of thread].